Description From Newfoundland\'s role as a sanctuary for the displaced immigrants of the Irish-Catholic diaspora to a Catholic Bishop\'s plea to an English monarch, and from the stories of relics and cultural artifacts to the building of the magnificent Basilica-Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, Jack Fitzgerald returns to chronicle the most socially and politically powerful institution in Newfoundland history..
Description From Newfoundland\'s role as a sanctuary for the displaced immigrants of the Irish-Catholic diaspora to a Catholic Bishop\'s plea to an English monarch, and from the stories of relics and cultural artifacts to the building of the magnificent Basilica-Cathedral of St