Author: Patrick Jamieson. Published by Ekstasis Editions of Canada, Victoria, BC., 1997, 1st Edition. SIGNED and dedicated by the Author on the front free page. AND BONUS: This book is also Flat Signed and dated on the title page by the Author! Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inch, 428 pages including index.
In VICTORIA: DEMERS to DE ROO, Jamieson evokes the first 150 years of the Diocese of Victoria with a sensitivity for the symbolic, an eye for patterns and an ear for the rhythmic repetitions of history.
The history breaks itself nicely into three distinct fifty-year periods.
1. The first period, 1846-96, is the pioneer stage, when all the bishops were non-Canadians, largely Europeans of Belgian descent, and the diocese itself was suffragan to an American Archdiocese.
2. The next stage, 1896-1946, saw the world change more than it had in he previous two hundred years, and this escalating pace of change became the hallmark of the Twentieth Century for the church worldwide and certainly for the diocese.
3. The final stage, 1946-96, was remarkable if only for its quality of leadership stability - only two bishops in more than fifty years - and for the outstanding event which granted it permanent specific shape: The Second Vatican Council.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patrick Jamieson was born in Vancouver in 1947. One of six children in a military family, he has lived in most parts of Canada. Jamieson began writing professionally in the 1970s and was appointed first lay editor of the influential Prairie Messenger in 1981. He returned to the west coast in 1986 and founded the independent newspaper Island Catholic News, for readers on Vancouver Island.
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