St. Jean – Ottawa Valley Irish

Funeral Prayer Cards

Catholic Records, Death and Burial2 December 2012by M.C. Moran

I tend to think of funeral prayer cards as a Catholic thing, though this assumption may be a function of my own, somewhat limited experience: the vast majority of funerals I have attended have been Catholic (at the moment, I…

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Disparité de culte/disparity of worship/disparitus cultus

Catholic Records17 November 2012by M.C. Moran

When Rose Ann Muriel St. Jean married Max Glatt at a Catholic church in Ottawa,1 the couple had to obtain “une dispense de disparité de culte” (a dispensation for [the impediment of] disparity of worship): The reason for this dispensation…

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