Tje statue will make a special visit Thursday, April 3 at the evening Adoration, Confessions, and Mass beginning at 5:00 PM at St. John. The visit is a stop on the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of the Cape's “To Rome with Love” tour during the Jubilee Year of Hope. First Class Relics of newly canonized St. Marie Leonie Paradis and Bl. Frederic Janssoone will accompany the Pilgrim Statue, who is fashioned after the Miraculous Medal Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. The visiting Our Lady of the Cape statue resides at the great Québécois Marian shrine, Cap-de-la Madeleine near Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Canada. The shrine is named for the colonial French-Canadian settlement founded in the seventeenth century and dedicated to the Blessed Mother. The settlers honored Our Lady for her favors to them, safety on their Atlantic voyages to New France, the growth and prosperity of their new home, and named their first small, wooden church for her. A statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart was the source of miracles, and drew great crowds of pilgrims over the centuries. The shrine continues to welcome hosts of faithful. It’s traveling statue, the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of the Cape, tours the world. Cap-de-la Madeleine now is incorporated into the city of Trois-Rivières.