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André Bessette, more commonly known as Brother André (or in French, Frère André), and since his canonization as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Roman Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported miraculous oil healings associated within his pious devotion to Saint Joseph. He was declared venerable in 1978 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982. and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on 17 October 2010.
