Saint Patrick’s of Montreal: the Biography of a Basilica by Alan Hustak
Saint Patrick’s of Montreal: the Biography of a Basilica by Alan Hustak
£24.00
Softcover
Publisher: Vehicule Press
Publication Date: 1998
Condition: Used; very good, light shelf wear to card covers, internally pages are clean and crisp and the binding remains tight and intact. Appears to be unread.
175pp, b/w illustrations. 230mm by 150mm, 340g.
1 in stock
Saint Patrick's of Montreal: the Biography of a Basilica by Alan Hustak
Dossier Quebec Series.
Saint Patrick's Basilica is more than a religious institution, the church is older than Canada, and has been at the heart of the episcopal, linguistic, political and social history of Montreal. This history offers a fascinating glimpse of the creative tension that existed between English-speaking Irish Roman Catholics and French-Canadians. Divided by language but united by faith they clashed in a struggle of wills. It is the story of stubborn bishops, dynamic pastors and colourful parishioners who contributed to the evolution of the basilica from a branch chapel of Notre-Dame, to the parent church of Montreal's 250,000 English-speaking Roman Catholics.
