Rev. Lucien Sawyer, O.M.I., will be signing copies of St. Jean Baptiste Parish and the Franco Americans of Lowell, Mass. at St. Joseph the Worker Shrine on Lee Street this Saturday, Feb. 8, at 1 p.m. Rev. Sawyer translated into English the original French text by Father Richard Santerre.

Rev. Lucien Sawyer, right, with Canadian Consul General Patrick Binns, left, then-Mayor Patrick Murphy in blue shirt, and others at City Hall in 2013. (Web photo courtesy of Jennifer Myers)