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Archdeacon McEncroe c1865

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Archdeacon McEncroe c1865

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Freeman Brothers

Henry Samuel Sadd

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National Library of Australia

[JAFp BIBLIO F11950]

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Freeman Brothers

Sadd, Henry Samuel

Mezzotint and wood engraver.

National Library of Australia

St Patrick's Catholic church Church Hill

An early focus for the Irish Catholic community in Sydney, St Patrick's became a symbol of Irish pride. Thousands of worshippers, carrying green flags, marched through the city to its foundation stone-laying ceremony in 1840.

Religions and Beliefs

Catholic

McEncroe, John

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Irish priest who opposed transportation and strenuously advocated the rights of the working man. Despite upheaval between the Irish and English orders of the church he was held in high esteem by Protestants and Catholics alike.