Your input will affect cover photo selection, along with input from other users. Historically religious, it is now relatively secular but still holds many links with the religious and its community. Saint Joseph was then chosen as patron saint and Religion et Patrie or Religioni et Patriae , referring to the Christian faith and the Quebec homeland as motto.
The STR offered the classical course of the former Quebec educational system until the end of the — scholar year. It officially became a secondary school in September It became a co-education school in while, as a boarding school , continuing to provide dormitory residence to male students.
The current massive building that houses the institution was built in and constitutes an example of pure neoclassical architecture. A new house for the seminary was made necessary by the destruction by fire of the former building in the same year, on the same present estate of the Laviolette Boulevard. The modern building was actually built around the chapel it now harbours.
The structure is mainly consisted of grey Quebec Beauce granite. The high and impressive facade is dominated by a large dome of bronze. The large main doors were designed by the French ironwork artist that created the Monument of the Flame beneath the Arc de Triomphe of Paris.
Like the school arms, [1] the doors display symbols of the Christian religion and of Quebec, an embodiment of the motto "Religion et patrie". The presence, above the door, of a Saint Joseph statue and a mast displaying the flag of Quebec also underlines the motto of the school. The museum preserves 7, works of art of all eras, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and fine arts , as well as 13, artifacts illustrating the religious history of the diocese, of the city and the region and the life and customs of the 19th and 20th century.
