Statue of Our Lady of Saguenay — Attraction in Rivière-Éternité

This golden gilded statue is truly a big, beautiful and magnificent monument perched thousands of feet high on the steep wall of Cape Trinity, overlooking the Saguenay River. Apparently it's made of white pine, covered with thin sheets of lead to protect it from the harsh weather and is 9 meters high and weighs more than 3 tons. The statue was commissioned by Charles Robitaille a traveling salesman who in 1878 after falling through the frozen Saquenay and unable to pull himself from the freezing water onto the ice, prayed that the Blessed Virgin Mary would save him and after he miraculously survived, he decided to create a statue in her honour. In 1881 Robitaille commissioned Louis Jobin to create the statue sculpted in the image of Our Lady of Lourdes. It must have been extremely difficulty to haul such a huge statue into place in the late nineteenth century. Since its erection in 1881, the statue has become a regional landmark. Against the background of and standing out from the evergreen trees, the statue, like a beacon, glows a brilliant white high up Cape Trinity. It became known as Notre-Dame du Saguenay. Hiking to it is about an hour's walk through the magnificent Saguenay Fjord...

Thank you sad gay lady! We stopped here while we were on our way to the grocery store but we took a wrong turn. Luckily everything works out in my favor and we took a little detour to hang out with my favorite girl! She didn’t speak much but I guess she gets a lot of attention so I didn’t take it personally. Although if i were to take it personally I wonder if she didn’t like my outfit that day. She listened to me talk about my day...

Didn’t actually visit it, but we saw it from our cruise ship at night. The bridge team was kind enough to shine a bright spot light on it as we passed, making it pretty spooky though. I saw it through binoculars and could tell it was a statue, but didn’t know what it was exactly until i looked it up here on...