My friend, Audrey Keyes (Veeto), used to say that wherever her mother lived in Montreal she could see the Oratory. She could walk out of her home on Oxford Avenue, or her apartment on Sherbrooke Street West, or the Manoir Westmount where she lived her final years, or even her childhood home just half a block from the Manoir Westmount, on Landsdowne Avenue in Westmount, and in the distance was the looming presence of St. Joseph's Oratory. Or even from, and maybe especially from, her window on Five South of St. Mary's Hospital where Mrs. Keyes died, and see the huge dome of the Oratory.
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| On Queen Mary Road at Cote de Neiges Road |
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| The Oratory is closed due to pandemic restrictions; meanwhile, renovations are taking place |
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St. Joseph's Oratory in the distance, taken on Terrebonne just outside the rear gates into Loyola College
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