History of the Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in North America. with a Memoir of the Author.

xxiii, 461 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles, gilt and black decorations, top edge gilt, engraved frontispiece and plates. MacLeod traces the emergence and development of Marian devotion across the North American continent. MacLeod, a Catholic priest and author, explores how the veneration of the Virgin Mary shaped the religious and cultural landscape from colonial times through the first half of the nineteenth century.