was unveiled by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada designating Fleming as a person of Canadian National Historic Significance. At the time of its consecration, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. John's was the largest Irish Neoclassical cathedral in the New World. Further reading Fire Upon the Earth: A Biography of Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming, O.S.F. by Brother J.B. Darcy, , Creative Press St. John's, Newfoundland. The Story Of The Basilica Of St.John The Baptist by Susan Chalker Browne. "Conflict and Culture in Irish-Newfoundland Roman Catholicism, 1829-1850", by John Edward FitzGerald, Ph.D. thesis, University of Ottawa, 1997. References External links Newfoundland Heritage, Bishop Fleming Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 1792 births 1850 deaths People from County Tipperary Irish Friars Minor Irish Roman Catholic missionaries Franciscan missionaries Canadian Friars Minor Franciscan bishops 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada Roman Catholic bishops of St. John's, Newfoundland Irish expatriate Catholic bishops Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) Newfoundland Colony people Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada