WELCOME SITE PLAN LIFE OF LOVE THE WORKS THE LADY E-MAIL	BOUTIQUE “LE ROSIER D’OR” A part of the store offering a variety of religious objects, spiritual books, greeting cards and exclusive hand-crafted items

For the purpose of promoting the sale of religious objects (rosaries, medals, holy pictures, crucifixes), an activity which was disappearing in many areas, and in order to distribute religious documentation (reviews, manuals, pamphlets, books on the saints, encyclicals, etc.), the Army of Mary began running, as of 1976, a small bookstore from an apartment at the International Center. A few volunteers took turns looking after the sale of material and the books.

This non-profit organization developed. In 1979-1980, the series of thirteen volumes of Life of Love recounting the Work’s history was added to the bookshelves as well as a series of children’s books and religious articles. Beginning in 1981, diocesan Centers in turn opened diocesan bookstores, always running them on a volunteer basis.

With the founding of the Community of the Sons and Daughters of Mary, different workshops came into existence, offering an increasingly greater number of religious objects, greeting cards, writing paper, statues, liturgical and decorative candles and a variety of baked goods, besides the very many books specific to the Work (its spirituality and its history) published to date.

Marian Bookstores

The goal of the Army of Mary being primarily to promote religious values, the diocesan Centers gradually withdrew, as of 1992, from the sale of religious articles which was complementary but not essential to the Work’s objectives. Instead, it encouraged its members who were interested in doing so to open a commercial enterprise with a profit-making bookstore through which they committed themselves to promote good reading material by choosing works by authors whose ideal elevates the soul and leads it to an apostolate of good works and of authentic love.

Thus, Marian bookstores opened in various regions of Quebec, in other Canadian provinces and abroad.

Welcome!

In order to be able to offer the items specifically produced by the Work, the Army of Mary proceeded to open a boutique for the sale of religious objects known as “Le Rosier d’Or”, the blessing and official opening of which took place on Saturday, October 25, 1997.

The store is open at all times on the web . . . . . You need only “CLICK” on the floral emblem . . . . . Welcome!

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