Gothic grandeur
Subtitle: a rare tradition in American Catholicism : an historical narrative of the administrative life of the Mother Church of the Diocese of Buffalo, New York
By: authored and co-edited by C. Eugene Miller and co-edited by Michael A. Riester.
Contributors: Riester, Michael A.
Publisher: Canisius College Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: St. Louis Church (Buffalo, N.Y.); Catholics -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.; Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Church history.
Notes: "A commemorative work for the 175th anniversary of St. Louis Roman Catholic Church, Main and Edward Streets, Buffalo, New York."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-488) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestry of tradition; title: Chapter 1: Catholicism comes to Buffalo; title: Chapter 2: Mother Church of Western New York; title: Chapter 3: Badin and Le Couteulx; title: Chapter 4: The missionary clergy; title: Chapter 5: Immigrant catholics in antebellum Buffalo; title: Chapter 6: A rare tradition in American Catholicism; title: Chapter 7: Gather our relics, we rise eternally; title: Chapter 8: Sorg fashions a truly German church; title: Chapter 9: Into the twentieth century with Hoelscher; title: Chapter 10: Catholicism in art and music; title: Chapter 11: The dramatic circle; title: Chapter 12: Do you know where your children are?; title: Chapter 13: First World War and the roaring twenties; title: Chapter 14: Financial disaster, depression, World War II; title: Chapter 15: Golden age of Tridentine Catholicism; title: Chapter 16: Challenge, convulsion, and cataclysm; title: Chapter 17: Anticipation hailed a new clarion call.