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The Mary Lake Augustinian Monastery, also known as Mary Lake Monastery, Mary Lake Shrine, or simply Mary Lake, is an Augustinian monastery in King City, Ontario, Canada. The campus is nearly , residing on Keele Street, just north of 15th Sideroad (Bloomington). It is part of the Province of Saint Joseph, the Canadian province of Augustinians which operates under the jurisdiction of the Chicago-based Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel. Mary Lake is the chief foundation of the Augustinians in Canada, and is now well known as a spiritual centre for the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. Mary Lake generally refers to the complex which includes the property, the monastery and shrine, and which operates a retreat centre. The shrine is named the ''Our Lady of Grace Shrine'', whose title is taken from an Augustinian shrine in Lisbon, Portugal. The monastery motto is ''One mind and one heart unto God''. In 1999, the mendicant order established a school on the property, St. Thomas of Villanova College. It uses the house system, with houses such as St. Augustine, St. Nicholas, St. Rita, and St. Monica. ==History== Originally, the property was the farm and summer home of Sir Henry Pellatt, and it was named for his first wife, Mary. It has been owned by the Augustinians since 1935. An agricultural school was established on the grounds in the 1930s by the Basilian fathers, and in 1942 the Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal McGuigan, ''"invited the Augustinians to establish a shrine and to offer a program of weekend retreats for lay people"'' He expressed that it was his own personal dream that it was his hope that this shrine at the Mary Lake Center would become not only an important place of pilgrimage in honor of our Blessed Mother Mary in this area, but that one day it would officially become the center of Marian devotion for all Ontario. The success of this program resulted in the construction of the shrine in the 1960s, which was dedicated on November 30, 1978 by Cardinal Carter. The building consists of split fieldstone native to Mary Lake, based on designs by J. Stuart Cauley. Mary Lake held its first mass in 1945. It is the site for a yearly June pilgrimage by 3,000 Danube Swabians for an open-air mass paying "homage to Germans expelled from Eastern Europe". In October 2012, the Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins, declared Marylake as one of four official archdiocesan sites of sacred pilgrimage for the Year of Faith. And on Sunday, February 3rd, 2013, in a Solemn High Mass, the Very Reverend Bernard Scianna, O.S.A., Ph.D., Prior Provincial of the Canadian and (Midwest Augustinians ), officially blessed and designated the main entrance to the shrine as a holy door open to all who come to Mary Lake seeking the special graces of this Year of Faith. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Lake Augustinian Monastery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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