A Basilica in the Making: The Centenary of St. Patrick’s, Fremantle by Geraldine Byrne

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to inside front and back covers. Inscribed by author. Body text and binding are still very good.

From its early beginnings in the convict period, St Patrick's has served as a stimulus to education, social welfare and entertainment as well as its prime function as a centre of worship staffed by the Oblates since 1894.

In this history, Geraldine Byrne shows how, from a modest start in makeshift quarters during the 1840s and 1850s, St Patrick's has developed into the handsome Basilica of today, one of the only four churches in Australia honoured with this distinction. (back cover)