Gang of Five
Bishops Philip Pocock, George Flahiff, Joseph-Aurele Plourde and the Carter brothers (Alexander and Emmett) became close friends who dubbed themselves and became known as “The Gang of Five.” The five wielded a significant influence upon their fellow bishops and hence upon the face of Roman Catholicism in Canada.
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“We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.”
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