Marylake Augustinian Monastery
The Marylake Augustinian Monastery, also known as Marylake Monastery, Marylake Shrine, or simply Marylake, is an Augustinian monastery in King City, Ontario, Canada. The campus is nearly 1,000 acres (4.0 km2), 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.
Marylake is the chief foundation of the Augustinians in Canada, and is now well known as a spiritual centre for the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. Marylake generally refers to the complex which includes the property, the monastery and shrine, and which operates a retreat centre.[1] The shrine is named the Our Lady of Grace Shrine, whose title is taken from an Augustinian shrine in Lisbon, Portugal.[2] The monastery motto is One mind and one heart unto God.
In 1999, the
History
Originally, the property was the farm and summer home of Sir Henry Pellatt,[2] and it was named for his first wife, Mary.[3] It has been owned by the Augustinians since 1935.[4]
An agricultural school was established on the grounds in the 1930s by the
The building consists of split fieldstone native to Marylake, based on designs by J. Stuart Cauley.
Marylake 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".[6][7]
In October 2012, the Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal
The Rosary Path at Marylake The Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrine (Lay Apostolate) gained approval from the Augustinian Friars to place an environmental sculpture of the Rosary at Marylake In 2014, ground was broken to build the largest rosary path in North America. In August 2016, Cardinal Collins blessed and Opened the rosary path. The Corpus of The Great Crucifix which is at the beginning of the rosary path was created by the world-renowned sculptor Timothy Schmaltz. In 2016, Mary's Way of the Cross was added to the pathway, and in 2017, large (7' X 4') glass panels created by Stuart Reid were added to the Way of the Cross.
The rosary path at Marylake was conceived by architect Ted Harasti of Toronto. After receiving a Marian locution on a retreat in 1974, Harasti made it his quest to build the rosary path at the request of the Blessed Mother Mary.
Pipe organ
The monastery has a
Filming locations
- The 1960s TV series The Forest Rangers used Marylake as a filming location, as it was a good match for lake scenery from Ontario's north
- 1995 film Billy Madison[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Pavilons 2014.
- ^ a b c Tantalo.
- ^ a b Burchill.
- ^ Oak Ridges Moraine, p. 42.
- ^ Koscielniak, Paul. "Cardinal of Toronto Honors Augustinians". Midwest Augustinians. Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Ruprecht 2010, The Danube Swabian Community.
- ^ Ruprecht 2010, The German Community.
- ^ Koscielniak, Paul. "Cardinal of Toronto Honors Augustinians". Midwest Augustinians. Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ "Hollywood North: Star-studded movies filmed in York region". toronto.com. May 29, 2018.
Notes
- Burchill, Aemon. "History of Marylake". Marylake Monastery. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- Pavilons, Mark (11 June 2014). "Efforts to refurbish antique organ at Marylake". King Weekly Sentinel. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- Ruprecht, Tony (2010). Toronto's Many Faces (5th ed.). ISBN 9781459718050.
- Tantalo, S.G. (John). "The Augustinian Monastery". Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- Oak Ridges Moraine. STORM Coalition. Boston Mills Press. 1997. ISBN 1550461915.)
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Further reading
- Mathews, Kelly (2017). The road to Marylake. The History Press. ISBN 978-1-4671-3887-1.