Introduction One of the most astonishing sights in , Prince Edward Island is the view of the Immaculate Conception Church, . It rises, splendid and white in the midst of a rural, treed landscape as one drives south along the coastal road through Waterford . This vision of a great building sitting high over its landscape, reminds travellers of European churches of the Middle Ages, built in an age when faith was everything and literal¬ ly moved the mountains of stone required to build them. The wooden church at was built on the same foundation of faith as its medieval predecessors with mountainous piles of