Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières

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Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières
G9A 5S3

Canada
Coordinates46°20′55″N 72°32′41″W / 46.348557°N 72.544703°W / 46.348557; -72.544703
Information
School typePrivate
MottoFrench: Religion et Patrie
("Religion and Country")
Established1860 (1860) as the Collège de Trois-Rivières
CampusUrban, park
Team nameVert et Or
DirectorPierre Normand
Websitewww2.ssj.qc.ca

The Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières is a

secular
but still holds many links with the religious and its community.

History

The roots of the Séminaire are found in 1860, when was founded the Collège des Trois-Rivières. Saint Joseph was then chosen as patron saint and Religion et Patrie (or Religioni et Patriae, referring to the Christian faith and the Quebec homeland) as motto.

In 1874, the college is given to the care of the Trois-Rivières diocese. The latter makes it then its own diocese seminary and bestows upon it the denomination of Séminaire Saint-Joseph des Trois-Rivières. The old tradition of calling the city les Trois-Rivières (plural grammatical inflection) now being obsolete, Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières is now the proper way to call the institution.

The STR offered the

co-education school in 1998 while, as a boarding school, continuing to provide dormitory
residence to male students.

Architecture

The current massive building that houses the institution was built in 1929 and constitutes an example of pure neoclassical architecture. A new house for the seminary was made necessary by the destruction by fire of the former building in the same year, on the same present estate of the Laviolette Boulevard. The modern building was actually built around the chapel it now harbours.

The structure is mainly consisted of grey

facade is dominated by a large dome of bronze. The large main doors were designed by the French ironwork artist that created the Monument of the Flame beneath the Arc de Triomphe of Paris. Like the school arms,[1] the doors display symbols of the Christian religion and of Quebec, an embodiment of the motto "Religion et patrie". The presence, above the door, of a Saint Joseph statue and a mast displaying the flag of Quebec
also underlines the motto of the school.

Musée Pierre Boucher

Musée Pierre Boucher at Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières
Map
LocationSéminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières Canada.
Typereligious history
Websitewww2.ssj.qc.ca

The main exposition areas of the Musée Pierre Boucher are found at the very main central entrance of the building. The

King Louis XIV
.

Archives

The Séminare houses a major service of historical

archives, an important gateway to Trois-Rivières and Mauricie history. The Service des archives du Séminaire de Trois-Rivières (ASTR) traces its own origins to 1918, when the authorities of the seminary asked a young priest, Abbot Albert Tessier, to act as archivist
.

Since 1929, the mandate of the archives center was broadened to the preservation and diffusion of more than 760 collections of private archives from individuals, families and organizations of the surrounding region. These documents include correspondence, photographs, postal cards and historical notes. They are accessible for free to all citizens.

Further information

It is known under more than one name: the "Séminaire Saint-Joseph", the "Séminaire de Trois-Rivières" and, simply, the "STR". It not only houses the Archives and the Museum, but also a

musical school play
of professional scope.

Its students are

colloquially and affectionately known as les suisses, a reference to the stripes of a former school uniform that made the wearer resemble a chipmunk, or un suisse in Quebec French (notably). Coincidentally, the name suisse was given to the chipmunk (or tamia in international normative French) because of the similarity of their stripes to the striped cloth of the Vatican Swiss Guard uniform.[2]

Notable alumni

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières.

References

  1. ^ "Séminaire Saint-Joseph de Trois-Rivières : Les Armoiries". Archived from the original on 2007-03-13. Retrieved 2005-08-13.
  2. ^ fr:Tamia

External links

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