Dom Claude-Marie Côté O.S.B.
Claude-Marie Côté
is born in 1908. He is
educated at the Ecole des Beax Arts in Montreal, where he graduates in 1930. He works as a student at the atelier
of Adrien Dufresne. In 1933 he decides to be a monk and enters the abbey of St.
Benoît-du-Lac. Dom Bellot starts building the new abbey in 1939 and after his
death Dom Côté continues building the abbey, matching the style of Bellot. In
the 50's Dom Côté constructs the guestrooms, the crypte and the large
bell-tower. The abbey-church has not been build by Côté. In cooperation with
several other architects Dom Côté constructed several churches in Quebec. He
died in 1986.
We know he
has constructed:
Parts of
the abbey St. Benoît-du-Lac,
Church of
Saint Benoît at Granby,
Monastery
Saint-Augustin at Montmagny
Church of
Notre Dame de Fatima at Jonquière
(shown at
the right)