Dom Claude-Marie Côté O.S.B.
Claude-Marie Côté
was 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 crypt 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
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)