Importance Of Saint Andre
Saint Andre Bessette, was also known as 'Blessed Brother Andre' was born on August 9, 1845 and died January 6, 1937 (age 91). On February 19, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI approved sainthood for Blessed André with the formal canonization taking place on October 17, 2010. Many people call him Saint Andre of Montreal, was a Holy Cross Brother and a significant figure to the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, and was reported to have made thousands of miraculous healings.
On January 6th , 2011 many people celebrated the death of Saint Andre Bessette which was 73 years ago. He became the first Canadian Saint of the 21st Century. He built the St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal which is a Bascililca or church. In the Bascilica, there is a room where people who visited Saint Andre with crutches, and left their crutches in the room because they did not need them anymore because they were healed.
When he was at a young age of his life, he was assigned to become a doorman at Notre Dame College in Cote-des-Neiges, Quebec. When visitors wanted to visit the priests, instead they would see Saint Andre the doorkeeper because the priests were away. So what he did was he told them to visit Saint Josephs and he simply offered to pray for them and then he would anoint them with oil from a burning lamp that he kept with him. More and more people were wanting to visit him because they had heard the news of a healer to help the sick. When the priests had heard the miracles and healing of Saint Andre, they made him a priest. At the age of 91, Saint Andre died but had made over 10,000 miracles for people that were sick or with crutches.
Many people still are used to calling him as our blessed brother, but truly, we all knew he would become a Saint for what he has done for people. If God hadn't sent him down to Earth, we wouldn't have another special creation by Him.
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