I like the architecture. It’s a Roman Catholic basilica dedicated to St. Joseph. [... read more ...]]]> This is the second post from my trip to Montreal. We went to St. Joseph Oratory (here’s another link from wikipedia) right after our visit to Mont-Royal Park. It was already dark when we got there, and they just finished the Christmas Mass.

I like the architecture. It’s a Roman Catholic basilica dedicated to St. Joseph. Many people go there to pray to be healed. There are a lot of crutches on display along the wall there .. they say they’re from handicapped people who were healed.

We did a little tour since it was almost closing time, so I only have one pic of the stained glass windows. There are 8 stained glass windows (that look like this one) in the Crypt Church (completed in 1919 by the workshop of Pedriau and O’Shea). They represent the episodes in the life of St. Joseph, this one represents “Jesus’ Circumcision”:

Next time I’ll go around and take pics of all 8 of them!!!!

More pics in my Montreal flickr set.

The first stop we [... read more ...]]]> Montreal. I hadn’t been to Montreal for years (at least 5 years!) until this past Christmas. My brother and sister-in-law were here, so we went there on a trip. And I’ve decided to create one post for one place – instead of by day .. this will give me more posts. Moahaha!

The first stop we made after we got there (ok, ok, the third stop when you count the hotel and McDonald’s .. hehe ) was the Mont-Royal Park (Parc du Mont-Royal). We had a lot of snow on the ground, but the temperature was just nice for a winter day — not too cold. The lake was frozen, so they made lines on one of the hills for tobogganing (no we didn’t try).

But the first thing that caught my eyes when we got there was this:

Never seen one like that before. I’m used to a horse-drawn carriage with wheels. But this one was neat, they could go through ice and snow!

The park seemed to be a LOT bigger when we had to walk and skid on icy trails, but we managed (*phew*) to get to the chalet with a lookout of downtown Montreal:

And the Cross a little further down the icy trail:

Did I mention it was hard to walk on ice?
Hmm .. there was one lady wearing high heel shoes (the heels were at least 10 cm high) — I don’t know how she walked on ice in those. :/ I wanted those shoes with spikes underneath. Wait a minute … high heel .. spike … hmmm … nah!

More pics on my Montreal Flickr set.

Next in this series: St. Joseph Oratory.