Stavanger Cathedral is said to have started construction of the cathedral around 1100. It was finished around 1150: the city of Stavanger counts 1125 as its year of foundation. The cathedral was dedicated to Saint Swithun, an early Bishop of Winchester and subsequently patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. The church was initially the seat of the Diocese of Stavanger within the Roman Catholic Church until the Protestant Reformation. Stavanger was ravaged by fire in 1272, and the cathedral suffered heavy damage. It was rebuilt under Bishop Arne (1276–1303) at which time the Romanesque cathedral was enlarged in the Gothic style. In 1682,
The Patron Saint of Butterflies York, and then moved 75 miles north to Mount Hope near Newburgh, New York. After Schwartz died, the commune "headquarters" moved to Milford, Pennsylvania.) One who was an adult at Mount Hope, Laura Mead Jones, describes the author, Cecilia Galante, as a woman who lived the life of the children described in "The Patron Saint of Butterflies": "Cecilia Galante was born at Mt. Hope and her book is something of a parody of life as seen through the eyes of many of her generation." In a 2007, Laura Jones, also, wrote that it appeared to her that author Cecilia Galante