The Architecture of Devotion by Jaynie Anderson;Max Vodola;Shane Carmody;

Author:Jaynie Anderson;Max Vodola;Shane Carmody;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780522878295
Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
Published: 2021-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

William St Clair has observed that, before 1900, it was only through the medium of print that ‘complex texts, and therefore complex ideas’ could ‘be carried in quantity across time and place’.49 As Jaynie Anderson and Callum Reid have noted, Bishop Goold saw the educative and devotional role of religious representational art as performing a similar transformative function.50 His use of print, and of Baroque art, were essential components of his work. When Bishop James Goold began his episcopate in Port Phillip, his diocese consisted of ‘three priests and two churches (in Melbourne and Geelong) … a small chapel in Portland’, and little else.51 In building an episcopal infrastructure, Goold, in what was in essence a colonial frontier society, established associations and support networks, and drew upon the considerable skills of those around him. One person with whom Goold worked was James Shanley. A master letterpress printer and publisher, Shanley was well positioned to contribute to Goold’s long-term vision for his diocese through his printing, publishing and book-importing. Shanley’s legacy is considerable. Operating in that transitional period from the hand-press to steam-driven press in early Melbourne,52 he was a man of diverse talents and skills, and an instigator of some major printing projects for both colonial Victoria and the Catholic Church. With Shanley’s son-in-law Michael Theobald Gason extending his legacy, the foundations of Catholic publishing and the dissemination of formal ideas on Catholic practice, devotion and reflection in Melbourne were established in the 1850s, enabling Bishop Goold to consolidate his vision, and to have it physically mapped and recorded in print, as his diocese moved from ‘colonial outpost’53 to its later, great, metropolitan status.

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