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Beloeil, Quebec




According to the Canada 2001 Census :
  • Population: 19,053

  • % Change ( 1996 - 2001 ): -1.2

  • Dwellings: 7,254

  • Area (sq. km.): 24.09

  • Density (persons per sq. km.): 791.0















North: Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu
West: Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil
Beloeil East: Mont-Saint-Hilaire

South: Saint-Basile-le-Grand , McMasterville


Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, lived her for a time as the housekeeper for her brother, Father Theophile Durocher. Her feast is kept on October 6.

She wrote, "Do not imitate those persons who, after having spent a few months as a postulant or novice in a community, dress differently, even ludicrously. You are returning to the secular state. My advice is, follow the styles of the day, but from afar, as it were."

She is the patronness of the sick and those who have lost both parents.


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