Land of Living Stories

Visitors to Gravelbourg are often blown away when they step into Our Lady of Assumption Co-Cathedral, feeling they’ve been transported to a church in France.

“It’s like a little big town. It’s got things that you don’t expect in a small town like this,” said Louis Stringer, who gives tours of the cathedral in southwest Saskatchewan to roughly 1,000 people a year.

He and others in this town about 150 kilometres southwest of Regina feel the onus is on them to protect and care for the cathedral, which was constructed in 1919. Every inch of its walls is a testament to the love of God and art of its early resident priest, M onsignor Charles Maillard.

“He started to paint the cathedral in 1921 and it took him 10 years to do all the paintings, which is remarkable,”

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