ANCESTRY of BLESSED DINA BÉLANGER
1897 - 1929
Soeur/Sister Marie Ste-Cécile de Rome
Religieuse/Religious de Jésus-Marie
EIGHTH GENERATION
Nicolas BÉLANGERwas born around 1633 in St-Thomas de Touques, Diocese of Lisieux, Normandy, Department of Calvados, France. He and Marie DERAINVILLE, daughter of Paul de RAINVILLE & Rolline POËTE, signed a marriage contract on 12 Nov 1659 in front the Notary Paul Vachon. He married Marie DE RAINVILLE on 11 Jan 1660 in Notre-Dame de Québec, Canada. He was also known as Nicolas BELLANGER. He was buried 20 Oct 1682 in Beauport. They had twelve children. (11)(12)(13)(14)(19)
SEVENTH GENERATION
Nicolas BÉLANGER was born 12 Jan 1672 and baptized 17 Jan 1672, the eighth child of Nicolas BÉLANGER & Marie DE RAINVILLE. He married Marie MAGNAN/MIGNIER, daughter of Jacques MAGNAN & Ambroise DOIGT, on 2 Nov 1699 in Charlesbourg. He died 12 Apr 1742 in Beauport. Nicolas and Marie had thirteen children.(1)(2)(8)(9)(10)
SIXTH GENERATION
Jacques BÉLANGER was born and baptized on 3 Aug 1721 in St-Charles Parish, Charlesbourg, Québec. He married Marie Jeanne PROTEAU on 1 Sep 1749 in Charlesbourg, Québec. (3)(4)
Jeanne PROTEAU dit CROTEAU was born on 10 and baptized on 11 July 1720 in St-Charles Parish, Charlesbourg, Québec. Her parents were Michel PROTEAU & Marie Suzanne BÉDARD who were married on 20 Jan 1710 in Charlesbourg. (1)
FIFTH GENERATION
Jean Baptiste BÉLANGER married Marie Françoise GRENIER dit GARNIER on 3 Feb 1795 in Notre-Dame de Beauport, Québec. Marie Françoise GRENIER dit GARNIER's parents were Michel-A. GRENIER & Marie Anne BRUNEAU. (5)(6)(16)
FOURTH GENERATION
Jacques BÉLANGER married Marguerite CHARTRÉ on 9 Aug 1842 in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Québec. Marguerite CHARTRÉ's parents were Pierre CHARTRÉ & Marie LAFLAMME(7)
THIRD GENERATION
Olivier BÉLANGER married Marie Dina BELLEAU on 26 Jul 1869 in St-François-de-Sales , Neuville, Portneuf, Québec. Marie Dina BELLEAU's parents were Honoré BELLEAU & Madeleine MATTE.
Upon the death of Dina, Olivier married Marie Élisabeth JOBIN on 22 August 1883 in the parish of L'Annonciation in L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec. (7)(15)(17)
SECOND GENERATION
Olivier Octave BÉLANGER was born about 21 Apr 1871. He married Séraphia MATTE on 22 Jun 1896 in St-Francis-de-Sales Parish, Neuville, Portneuf Co, Québec. He died on 21 Jul 1952. (7)(15)
Séraphia MATTE was born about 18 Apr 1870 and died on 18 Aug 1951. Her parents were Joseph MATTE & Virginie DELISLE.
FIRST GENERATION
Blessed Dina BÉLANGER was born at Québec on 30 April 1897, the daughter of Olivier Octave BÉLANGER & Séraphia MATTE. Her parents lived at 168 Notre Dame des Anges in the Parish of Jacques Cartier, Portneuf County. Dina was baptized at St. Roch, Québec. She studied music and planned to become a concert pianist. While studying in New York, Dina lived with the Religious of Jesus-Mary.
She returned home and decided to enter the religious life in the Congregation of Jesus-Marie at Sillery, where the nuns had their mother house. She entered the convent at the age of 24, in August 1921. She entered the order of Jesus-Marie in February 1922 and received the name Sister Marie Sainte-Cécile of Rome and took her final vows on 25 August 1923. As a nun, Dina BÉLANGER taught music.
On two occasions the sisters sent her to teach at Saint-Michel of Bellechasse but both times, illness brought her back to Sillery where she stayed (teaching music) until her death. She could have taught in many areas as she had excelled in all her studies but due to her having shown such great talent in music at a young age and her continued education at the Conservatory of New York from 1916 to 1918, her superiors judged her best qualified to teach music.
Dina had a brother who died at the age of 3 months. Dina's father was an auditor and her grandfather operated a grocery store in the St Malo district of Québec. Her ancestors (Pierre, Joseph-Marie and Nicolas) all came from Charlesbourg.
Dina died on 4 Sept 1929 at the age of 32.
In 1951 her body was exhumed and placed in a lead sarcophagus where, today, many kneel to pray. On March 20, 1993, at ceremonies in Rome, Dina BÉLANGER became the first native of Québec to be Beatified by the Church. The quiet life of this talented young woman, who lived her short adult life as a Sister of Jesus-Mary is the subject of her autobiography which has been translated into several languages. (7)
Blessed Dina Bélanger's motto
Beatified on March 20th, 1993
Prayer to obtain a favour through the intercession of Blessed Dina Bélanger
par Léonard Bélanger, s.j.
Dina Bélanger - Faithful in Love
Translated by Normand A. Léveillée, distant cousin of Dina
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(1) PRDH, Certificat de mariage No. 82287.
(2) Ibid., Certificat de famille No. 8450.
(3) Ibid, Certificat d'union No. 27322.
(4) Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 174213.
(5) Ibid., Certificat d'union No. 75117.
(6) Ibid., Certificat de mariage No. 355098.
(7) Bélanger Database © Jim Bélanger, Permission to use granted in an Email 6/29/02.
(8) PRDH, Certificat d'individu No. 6230.
(9) Ibid., Certificat de baptême No. 58673.
(10) Ibid., Certificat de sépulture No. 171224
(11) Cyprien Tanguay, DGFC Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Vol 1, p. 38
(12)Frère Éloi-Gérard, B.A., B.P., mariste, Receuil de Généalogies des comptés de Beauce, Dorchester, Frontenac, 1625-1946, Collège du Sacré-Coeur, Beauceville, P.Q. p. 164
(13) Claude Drouin, DNCF Dictionnaire national des canadiens français 1608-1760, Vol 1, p. 82.
(14) PRDH - Programme de recherches en démographie historique, Un. de Montréal, Certificat de famille No. 275.
(15)Portneuf County, Québec, Catholic Church Marriages, 1679-1950, p. 43.
(16) Beauport, Québec County, 1673-1966, Catholic Church Marriages, p. 20.
(17) Répertoire de mariages, paroisse de L'Assomption, L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, p. 133.
(18) PRDH, Certificat de famille No. 10570.
(19) The Autobiograpy of Dina Bélanger 3rd Edition revised and updated, Translated by Mary St. Stephen, R.J.M. & Revised and updated by Sr. Felecity Moody, R.J.M., Religious of Jesus and Mary, Canada, 1995, p. 365-366.