Saint-Joachim Catholic Church

Very beautiful mass. The priest is great.

I do not hate this place I am a non-practicing Catholic

St. Joachim Church Châteauguay ,, Quebec In 1636 there was a chapel at Châteauguay; it was served by the Jesuits of Caughnawaga. On September 29, 1673, the governor Louis de Buade, Earl of Frontenac, concedes a lordship (2 leagues front on Lake Saint-Louis starting at 10 arpents down the Loup river, 3 leagues deep, including the islands of Peace, Saint-Bernard and Saint-Nicolas) to Charles LeMoyne de Longueuil who takes the name of Châteauguay in memory of a commune of this name in the department of Puy-en-Dôme, France. The territory of the lordship is crossed by the Châteauguay River and the Saint-Régis River. Ten years later, there is a stately residence with chapel on Saint Bernard Island. The chapel of the seigneurial manor was sufficient for the mission until the beginning of the 18th century. On the death of Charles LeMoyne, in February 1685, the lordship passes to Catherine Thierry dit Primot, his wife, and his 12 children. On the death of this one, on August 4, 1690, the lordship passes to the 12 children who will sell it, on August 6, 1706 to Zacharie Robutel de LaNoue who, on his death, March 28, 1733, bequeathed to his wife, Catherine LeMoyne and his children, Joachim, Marie-Anne and Thomas Robutel. When Catherine LeMoyne died in 1746, the seigneurie passed on to her children. When Thomas Robutel of LaNoue died in 1754, his share went to his brother and sister. When Joachim Robutel de LaNoue returned to France, he gave up his share to his sister on August 25, 1764. On June 8, 1765, Anne-Marie sold the seigneury to Marguerite Dufrost de la Jemmeraye, widow of François-Madeleine d'Youville, on behalf and as director and administrator of the poor at the Montreal General Hospital & the Gray Nuns of Montreal. July 18, 1854, the seigneurial regime is abolished & a municipality is erected - The Catholic mission of Châteauguay was erected March 3, 1722 and is served as such from 1736 to 1789, date of the appointment of the first resident priest. The choice of saint Joachim as patron of the parish in 1727, is in honor of the then lord, Joachim Robutel de la Noue. In 1735, the year of the opening of the registers, a small wooden church is erected on a ground of one acre three quarters given by Hilaire Girardy to approximately 1.6 km (one mile) of the current church. The latter is damaged by a fire in 1759 during the Conquest War. It is repaired temporarily, but as early as 1768 a request is given to Bishop Jean-Olivier Briand of Quebec, during his visit, for the construction of a new church on the same site. The bishop does not hurry to answer; he is waiting for a site as suitable as the old one to be offered. But the more time passes, the more it is necessary to change the site of the church, the manor is growing more and more. On November 22, 1773, a field of two arpents is given to the factory by François Lefebvre dit Descôtes. This site, at the limits of the navigable zone of the Châteauguay River, saves on the transportation of materials while providing access by water to the inhabitants of the banks. The churchThe building takes again the famous architectural type known as "Mailloux / Maillou plan" then very widespread under the French Regime. This architectual type is reminiscent of the plan that Jean Mailloux / Maillou (1668-1753), architect of Quebec City, developed at the beginning of the 18th century as a model plan for a country church. This single nave church, without transept, terminated by a semicircular apse, is one of the last of this model in the region. The building is located on an east-west axis following the old dividing lines and its facade, facing east and the Châteauguay River, goes against the traditional Catholic orientation.

Practical place. This is the church of my childhood

Nice place