Seven Roads
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  • SEVEN ROADS
  • Canada
    • Jesus of Montreal
    • Ghost Signs: Montreal
    • Signs and Wonders: Montreal
    • Montreal ⇄ Ottawa
    • Walks >
      • Road to Saint Helen's
      • Along Saint Patrick's Road
      • Rue St Jacques
      • From Honoré Beaugrand to Ile Charron
  • USA
    • Signs and Wonders: The Streets of San Francisco
    • Victory Highway
    • Nevada >
      • Nevada Vernacular: Part 1, Signs
      • Nevada Vernacular: Part 2, buildings.
      • Nevada Vernacular: Part 3, Winnemucca
      • Nevada Vernacular: Part 4, artifacts
  • Turkey
    • Eastern Express Outwards
    • Ani
    • Istanbul return
    • Signs and Wonders: Istanbul
  • Europe
    • France >
      • Signs and Wonders: Paris
      • Cemeteries of Paris
    • Wurzburg
    • Seaside
    • Streets of London
    • Dartmoor
    • Plovdiv - E80, return
  • Australia
    • Signs and Wonders: Sydney
  • Investigations
    • Statues
    • The Unsettled Dust
    • On Reflection
    • Ferris wheels
  • about/contact
  • links
JESUS OF MONTREAL
Two statistics, drawn from the 2001 census: 86% of people in Quebec declared themselves to be Christian yet only 12% confessed to being regular church goers. Most said they never went near such a place. Maybe these statistics have less to do with religion than with education, but in any case, churches are the most salient feature on the montreal skyline. the spires are everywhere: like the forest of minarets in the formerly secular Istanbul. Jesus of Montreal. suburban jesus, bandit jesus, sinister jesus, baby jesus, elegant jesus, drug dealer jesus, windswept and rugged jesus, lover boy jesus, psychedelic jesus: a man for all seasons, jesus. 
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