| Summary: | Patrick W. Browne is acclaimed as a scholar of the history of the Roman Catholic church in North America. He was both a noted teacher and an accomplished writer, with many publications to his credit. This fonds contains the typescript of an unpublished history of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland entitled "Catholic Footprints in the Ancient Colony" written in the 1930s. The typescript consists of 257 numbered leaves, typed on one side only, together with an additional 21 leaves of end-notes and appendix, bound in a simple black cardboard stock with cloth spine. There is no title page, but there appears to have been one or two pages torn from the front of the text; these may have included a title page. The only comprehensive account of the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland between Archbishop Michael Howley's Ecclesiastical History of Newfoundland (1888) and Paul O'Neill's Upon this Rock (1984). .
|
|---|