Bl. Frederic Janssoone

• Born in Ghyvelde, France

• Père Frédéric Janssoone, O.F.M. ordained a Franciscan Priest

• Sent to the Holy Land to maintain two sacred churches and regulated services in the Holy Sepulcher and in the Church of the Nativity

• Built a church in Bethlehem

• Revived an old custom of walking the Stations of the Cross through the streets of Jerusalem

• His mission extended to five nations, Egypt, France, Syria, the Holy Land and Canada

• He helped develop the shrine of Our Lady at Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec

• At the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, he was one of three witnesses to a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary which came to life

• Helped erect several life-size Ways of the Cross in Canada, one of which is at the Sanctuary of Reparation in Montreal

• He collected many sacred relics from the Holy Land and brought them to Canada where he was known as a "Miracle Worker"

• He died of stomach cancer and is buried in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec

• The miracle for his Beatification was attributed to his relic touching and curing a person with cancer

• Spiritual assistant for the Franciscan Third Order now known as the Secular Franciscan Order SFO

• Composed a Manual for the Third Order and later updated and released under the title The Third Order, Its Rule and Its Excellence.

A reliquary locket containing the hair of Bl. Frederic Jansoone was loaned to a Pittsburgh mother having complications in the fifth month of her pregnancy. Her baby was born four months premature and had a birth weight of 1lb. 10oz. The baby's eyes, fingers and toes developed outside the womb and the infant was born healthy and never experienced any complications!