Anecdotes

A Protestant becomes an Oblate of Mary Immaculate

In the mid 19th Century, Protestant England experienced a movement of return to the ...

June 23rd, 2010

The name shall be “Grouard”

Émile GROUARD, OMI There’s a small locality in northern Alberta named “Grouard”. It was ...

June 3rd, 2010

A black fox for the Pope

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the survival of the Oblate missions on the ...

May 18th, 2010

The Inspector of Schools dumbfounded

Elsewhere, I have told the extraordinary story of a young Ceylonese boy who was healed ...

January 5th, 2010

My grandfather was pagan

Bishop Dominic Khumalo, OMI is auxiliary bishop in South Africa. Let us allow him to ...

December 23rd, 2009

A long preparation for Baptism

Jean-Paul BROUILLETTE, OMI “The Oblates are specialists in difficult missions.” When ...

December 15th, 2009

What a fine Bishop in the ice fields!

Louis Veuillot once said to the Oblates, at the end of an interview with Vital ...

November 27th, 2009

My broken chalice

On January 31, 1965, at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Father Joseph Guinard died at the age ...

November 16th, 2009

Chaplains for nuns

Along with their preaching, the responsibility for four parishes, and the sponsoring of ...

November 12th, 2009

Learning from wharves and on the streets

We wish to recall the legendary figure of Father Henri Roy, OMI, who was involved in the ...

November 6th, 2009

The Oblates at Montreal

When the first six Oblates arrived in Montreal, on December 2, 1841, the small ...

October 30th, 2009

The most extraordinary Oblate I have known

He was born in Brittany on March 4, 1876, and died in Québec on November 29, 1956. He ...

October 23rd, 2009

No greater love

It may be said that in the first centuries of Christianity “The blood of martyrs was the ...

October 14th, 2009

The bishop with the poor

Isidore CLUT Of all the great bishops who enriched the missions of Western Canada ...

October 8th, 2009

Like mother, like daughters

On December 9, 1990, Pope John Paul II proclaimed officially, in the name of the Church, ...

October 2nd, 2009

Father LeBihan summoned before the court

François LeBihan was one of those Breton Oblates who were gifted with an extraordinary ...

September 24th, 2009

The hanged woman unhanged

Gabriel MORICE, OMI Henri Ghéon wrote a play entitled: La farce du pendu dépendu (The ...

September 15th, 2009

A lay apostle among the Snohomish

Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is a noted characteristic of the Oblates of Mary ...

August 25th, 2009

The Great Provider of the missions

Gabriel BREYNAT In Mackenzie, during the first half of the 20th Century, one Oblate, who ...

August 18th, 2009

Saved by a Wolf

There is a saying, often verified by the facts: “A special Providence watches over ...

August 10th, 2009
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