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  A handsome new church was dedicated in 1876. To it were removed the old altar and pulpit, both of the seventeenth century, and the relics and original ornaments of the old church.  Among these are an altar-piece by Le Brun, the gift of the Marquis de Tracy;  a silver reliquary and a painting by Le François, both the gift of Mons. de Laval: a chasuble marked by Anne of Austria, and a bone of the finger of Ste. Anne. There are also a great number of ex-voto tablets - some very old and by good masters - to commemorate deliverances from peril at sea, for Ste. Anne watches specially over sailors and travelers. Numbers of costly vestments have also been presented, and Pius IX, in addition to giving a facsimile of the miraculous portrait of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, set in a jeweled frame, issued a decree declaring the shrine the to be of the first magnitude.
                          Picuresque? Canada