The Lebeau family shares a favor obtained through the intercession of Mother Marie-Rose on September 26, 1941.
“During the great forest fires of 1941, Mr. David Lebeau, a resident of the Rivière Sud in Saint-Lin des Laurentides, took part in the onerous task of digging a 20-foot-wide trench to prevent the fire from spreading further. On his way up to the woods to lend a hand to the people of Côte Sainte-Henriette, he had the idea of hanging this plaster cast of Mother Marie-Rose from a pine tree in his forest.”
“On September 26, 1941, fire, driven by a raging wind, devastated our forest, until it burned the tree on which Mother Marie-Rose’s plaster cast was suspended by a simple rope. The pine burned to the end of the rope and stopped there, preserving some 40 acres of woodland, the house and all the farm buildings.”
A week later, Mr. Lebeau returned to see what had stopped the conflagration. To his amazement, he found the plaster cast still attached to the charred tree.
“We believe we have been preserved thanks to the intercession of Mother Marie-Rose, in whom our parents instilled great confidence.”
For the record, one of his daughters, Jeanne, became a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (SNJM), founded by Mother Marie-Rose in 1843.
