The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
St. Patrick's Basilica
This was the spiritual home of the city's Irish Catholics, completed in 1847 — the same year the famine ships arrived and thousands died at the Black Rock. The Irish were a distinct community: Catholic like the French but English-speaking, caught between the two solitudes. The serene green-and-gold interior is one of the city's finest, and it tells the story of a third community usually lost between French and English Montreal.
An 1847 Gothic Revival basilica built as the church of Montreal's Irish-Catholic community — opened the very year of the famine migration.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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