 In 1892, the church inadvertently became a shrine of St. Anne.A Canadian priest, Father J.C. Marquis, dropped in at the rectory unexpectedly on May 1, needing a place to stay while he carried a relic of the saint that Pope Leo XIII had given him back to Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec.The pastor at the time asked him to expose it to the parishioners during vespers that evening.