Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (Montreal)

Discovering Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, a place of worship, art, and history

For over 350 years, the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel, a jewel of history and heritage, holds a special place in the memory and the heart of many generations of visitors and pilgrims. Cross it's threshold is immediately sense its atmosphere of peace and wellness, and feeling a palpable link to Montreal of another age.

During the next hour, we'll invite you to visit Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel. It will be our pleasure to make you discover this historic chapel whose renown is closely tied to the charism of Marguerite Bourgeoys. You'll discover a place with many attractions. In addition to the richness of its decor, you will be enchanted by its furnishings, its paintings, its ex-votos in the form of model boats recalling its function as a place of pilgrimage, the “miraculous” statue and, of course, the museum.

This visit includes 19 audio stops.

• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - The neighbourhood
• 3 - History
• 4 - Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Congrégation de Notre-Dame
• 5 - Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve
• 6 - The surrounding buildings
• 7 - Visit of the exterior
• 8 - The Narthex
• 9 - The Nave
• 10 - The chapel’s artists
• 11 - The Irish, Bishop Bourget and Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
• 12 - The Sailors’ Church
• 13 - The Pietà
• 14 - The sanctuary
• 15 - The miraculous statue
• 16 - Tombs of Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys and Jeanne Le Ber
• 17 - The organ
• 18 - Musical excerpt
• 19 - Closing remarks