The village was named after the parish church for Alphonso Marie dei Ligouri, son of a Neapolitan noble.
Settled by Acadians in the early 1800s, the name St. Alphonse was adopted in 1932 to identify the former villages of Bear Cove and Chéticamp-de-Clare.
The St. Alphonse Church, built in 1932, is known for its breathtaking hand-painted murals behind the sanctuary and the grotto in the corner that has miraculous water running through it. The grotto was made to look like stone but is actually wood carved by a local craftsman.
It’s in Saint-Alphonse, in the residence of Didier Comeau, where the mysterious Jérôme spent a good part of his 58 years in Clare.
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