Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 by Nancy Lusignan Schultz - 2000-10-17

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New York. 2000. October 2000. Free Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684856859. 315 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Kathy DiGrado. keywords: History Boston America Religion. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, vicious gossip began swirling through the Yankee community and in the press that she was being held at the convent against her will, and had even been murdered. The rumored fate of the ‘Mysterious Lady,' as she became popularly known, ultimately led to the burning of the convent by an angry, drunken mob of Protestant men. The arsonists' ringleader, a brawny bricklayer named John Buzzell, became a folk hero. The nuns scattered, and their proud and feisty mother superior, Mary Anne… Read More

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The Free Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. NEW ====== "The burning of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1834 is one of the high points of anti-Catholic bigotry in the United States "..