to respond to Ken List:
 
The definition of an Oratory is:  a place of PRAYER.  (See: Merriam-Webster
Dictionary, Unabridged, Third Edition.  --- You'll also find my name in same,
Ken List: I worked on it: way back c. 1960.)
 
The Oratory in Montreal is also a SHRINE --- to the memory of the Blessed
Frere Andre (the next step: Sainthood, in the Catholic Church).
 
It is most definitely a CHURCH:  Mass is celebrated there several times every
day.  And the Grand Mass occurs on Sunday in the main Basilica --- one of the
largest religious edifices in the world.  Too bad Ken List is so unfamiliar
with its incomparable Beckerath organ: just about every other organist in
North America has, at least, heard of it.
 
Arthur LaMirande
 
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