{"id":31,"date":"2022-09-20T01:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/index.php\/blogue\/leglise-sainte-therese\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T21:34:11","slug":"leglise-sainte-therese-2","status":"publish","type":"blogue","link":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/blogue\/leglise-sainte-therese-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Church\u2014a Place of Celebration From the Past to the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Original Church<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know very little about the first Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se church,\u201d says Marie-\u00c8ve Gingras of <a href=\"https:\/\/mhist.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Sherbrooke History Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the 1900s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherbrooke.ca\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sherbrooke<\/a> had approximately 11,125 inhabitants. By the time the church was built, that figure had more than doubled, to 24,000.\u201d The burgeoning city of Sherbrooke needed to establish new parishes to cater to the growing number of newcomers, most of whom were workers. At that time, 75% of the population were French-speaking Roman Catholics who were regular churchgoers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 12, 1922, the Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Church opened its doors and Monsignor Paul-Stanislas Larocque welcomed the first members of his congregation to celebrate mass, baptisms and weddings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Une premi\u00e8re \u00e9glise \u00ab\u00a0On sait tr\u00e8s peu de choses sur la premi\u00e8re \u00e9glise Sainte-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, \u00e9rig\u00e9e en 1922, autre qu\u2019elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 b\u00e2tie en m\u00eame temps que sa paroisse fut cr\u00e9\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb, explique Marie-\u00c8ve Gingras du Mus\u00e9e d\u2019histoire de Sherbrooke. Elle poursuit : \u00ab Dans les ann\u00e9es 1900, Sherbrooke comptait environ 11 125 habitants. En 1922, le [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1016,"template":"","class_list":["post-31","blogue","type-blogue","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type\/blogue\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type\/blogue"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blogue"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omgresto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}