Mount Carmel Shrine (Saskatchewan)

Located a top of a hill once known as Grosse Butte the shrine is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

St. Mary under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel became the patroness and protectress of St. Peter's Colony, an area of 50 townships where a large number of German speaking Catholics had settled.

Molaro also built the chapel and altar at the base of the hill in 1938 and the fourteen stations of the Cross leading up to the shrine in 1939.

From 1922 to 1954 five to six thousand pilgrims were taking part each year with the exception of 1948 when an estimated 12,000 people attended during the Family Rosary Crusade.

Called Rock the Mount, it draws young people and families from across the prairie provinces.