On the way home from our outing last Saturday to Cabin de Sucre, we drove through the Notre Dame Cemetery in the center of Montreal. It is the hugest cemetery that I have ever visited. It is located on 343 acres of beautiful countryside on the top of Mount Royal. It is full of chapels and huge mausoleums, lovely large tombstones and small markers. There are large sections devoted to different countries. We happened to drive through one that had many of the headstones engraved in Russian. Another section was English, another oriental, and then French. There were headstones from so many different countries. All around are beautiful trees and lovely paths.
At the very top is this gorgeous church.
There are many entrances into the cemetery.
Fields and fields of graves.
These mausoleums look small in the photos, but in reality they are very large.
This one is build into a rock and the blue is a new one being built.
See the statue of Mary in the crevice?
This is a tiny part of the University of Montreal that backs up right to the cemetery.
Just a photo of the contrast of old buildings and new ones right next to each other that we saw on the way back to our apartment. Our apartment is actually not far from here at all, just about a 10 minute drive in traffic.
I really loved reading your posts about your parents and grandparents...so interesting. I had never really heard them before. Thank you so much. It is clear to me that in several instances they were protected and preserved by God.
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