The St. Anne Shrine, once a thriving community near Lake Wales, Florida, now exists only in fragments. Founded in the 1920s by French Canadian Napoleon Pelletier, the shrine drew hundreds of ...

Hidden in the rural Lake Wales Ridge, the St. Anne Shrine once drew Catholic pilgrims from all over, and a small French Canadian community thrived.

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave honor him.