16 Oct 2019 | News
The Shrine was glad to welcome Fr. Arnaud Lejeune, chaplain at the Shrine of Sainte Thérèse of Lisieux (France), and Ria, from the reception service, who knows Bangladesh well. A mass was celebrated in front of the tomb of Blessed Basil Moreau in the presence of Fr....
25 Sep 2019 | News
The launching of a new year of activities at the parish of Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix/Shrine of Blessed Basil Moreau was held on September 15, 2019, feast of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, the patroness of the Congregation of Holy Cross and of the Holy Cross family in...
6 Aug 2019 | News
« After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. » (Luke, 10:1) Fr. John De Riso, csc, left the Shrine of Blessed Basil Moreau for a new mission for the Congregation of Holy-Cross in...
8 Jul 2019 | News
On Sunday, June 30, the Christian community at Our Lady of Holy Cross church (Le Mans) celebrated the blessing and dedication of a bell recently installed in the church loft. Made in 1866 by the famed Bollée bell factory, the bell, from the Marianite clinic in...
3 Jul 2019 | News
On Sunday, June 23, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, 22 children received their first Holy Communion at the Shrine of Blessed Basil Moreau. It was also the occasion for Fr. John De Riso, csc, pastor and rector, to bless the shrine’s new tabernacle....
2 Jul 2019 | News
After probably over a century of an absence, a Cross finally rests once again on the peak of Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix in Le Mans, France. What happened to the original Cross remains uncertain. Some speculate that it was probably lost during the bombardment of Le...
