Bene merenti de patria

Bene merenti de patria is a silver medal created in 1923. It is awarded by the Quebec patriotic Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to a "compatriot having rendered exceptional services to the homeland".^[1]

• 1924: Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
• 1924: Laurent-Olivier David
• 1964: Sister Marie-Stéphane [1]
• 1964: Wilfrid Laurier
• 1965: Claude Champagne
• 1965: Lionel Daunais
• 1965: Madame Aline Hector Perrier [fr]
• 1966: Annette Lasalle-Leduc [2]
• 1966: Jean Vallerand
• 1966: Eugène Lapierre
• 1968: Dr. Pierre Grondin
• 1970: Clermont Pépin
• 1972: Dr. Armand Frappier
• 1974: Gustave Bellefleur
• 1975: Father Gustave Lamarche [fr]
• 1977: Raymond Barbeau
• 1977: Jean-Charles Bonenfant [fr] (posthumous)
• 1982: Séraphin Marion
• 1982: Jean Rougeau (known as Johnny Rougeau)
• 1983: Jeannine Séguin [3]
• 1987: Gilles Proulx
• 1989: Pierre-Louis Mallen [fr] (first non-Quebecer)
• 1990: Alice Poznanska-Parizeau (posthumous)
• 1991: Mary Travers (known as La Bolduc, posthumous)
• 1992: Dollard Ménard and Eugenia Dias
• 1997: Rosaire Morin [fr]
• 2005: Raymond Lévesque
• 2011: Réginald Chartrand [fr]
• 2012: Marcel Masse
• 2015: Gilles Rhéaume
• 2019: Yvon Groulx [4]
• 2019: Yves Saint-Denis [5]
• 2021: Yves Michaud
• 2023: Onil Perrier

• "Liste des Lauréates et lauréats du prix Bene Merenti De Patria" Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine at Bilan du Siècle

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