Cathedral of Saint Helena Cathedral of Saint Helena The Cathedral of Saint Helena is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, Montana. Modeled by architect A.O. Von Herbulis after the Votivkirche in Vienna, Austria, the construction began on the Cathedral in 1908, and held its first mass in November 1914. The Cathedral sustained significant damage during the 1935 Helena earthquake, which required extensive renovations. The Cathedral was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The site for the cathedral was purchased in 1905. A.O. Von Herbulis of Washington, D.C., was commissioned as the architect. Von Herbulis was trained abroad
The Saint Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud the chroniclers strove to be accurate, and on the whole succeeded." This journal, which consists of about twelve hundred printed pages, was not published until 1899. The Saint Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud The Saint Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud is a private journal written down by Gaspard Gourgaud as a result of his conversations with Napoleon I of France between June 1815 and March 1818 during the former's exile on Saint Helena. According to Lord Rosebery "The one capital and superior record of life at St. Helena is the private journal of General Gourgaud. It was written,