08/28/2026
This little chapel has a big story.
The Santa Rosa chapel was built along the Rat River in St-Malo on land belonging to Antoine Magne and Marcel Jamault. Mrs. Rosa Magne often went to spend weekends at the cottage with her children Thérèse, Yvonne, and Antoine. She used to tell her children, "I really like coming to St-Malo; the open space, the garden, the woods, the tranquility, and the farm air remind me of the time I spent on the farm in Notre Dame de Lourdes. But," she would say, "one thing is missing! Here, there is no church!"
So Antoine built this chapel right near the cottages to fulfill her devoted desire to go to church every morning to pray for her family, as she had done at the Taché Centre for six years.
The pews (carved to fit the small dimensions of the chapel), the altar, and the prayer desks (prie-dieu) all came from the old church in Lourdes. The mother-of-pearl crucifix is from Europe (Spain or France). The statues were donations from Eliane and Paul Boulet of St-Georges. The bronze bell comes from California. Antoine painted the 5 stained glass windows (designed by an Oblate sister) and also made the Stations of the Cross.
The small chapel was blessed on the occasion of the 25th wedding anniversary of Odile and Antoine Magne by Father Robert Nadeau, who was the parish priest of St-Malo at that time. After the sale of the estate and the cottages, the chapel was moved to Adam’s Funeral Home in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, and now it has been moved to the Notre-Dame Parish Cemetery where Rosa rests.
Thank you to the crew that helped move it safely to it's new location!!!
