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Tag: Who was St Andre Bessette?
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André Bessette
St André Bessette (1845 – 1937) was born in a small town outside Quebec, Montreal. He was the ninth of thirteen children. At 9yrs, his father, a carpenter, died in a tree-fall accident and at 12, his mother died from TB. St André became a Lay Brother and remained in the same congregation for over…