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Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars
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In this comprehensive history, Fr. Charles Connor details the life of Catholics in the American Colonies. It’s a tale that begins with the flight of English Catholics to religious freedom in Maryland in 1634, and continues through the post-Revolutionary period, by which time the constitutions of all but four of the first 13 states contained harsh anti-Catholic provisions.
Catholic readers will be proud to learn from these pages that despite almost two centuries of ever-more-intense religious persecutions and even harsher legal prohibitions, American Catholics in the colonies simply refused not to be Catholic.
These pages show that from the Jesuit manor houses that planted the seeds of faith in Maryland to the solitary missionary priests who evangelized the New York regions, Catholics kept the faith . . . even unto death.
Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars is indispensable reading for souls interested in the deep roots of Catholicism in America, and in the holy courage of scores of Catholics who kept remorseless forces from snuffing their faith out.
Among other things, you’ll learn here:
Why Catholics left the old world for America: their reasons were often not religious
The tale of The Ark and The Dove that carried the first settlers to Maryland
The Puritan ascendancy that too soon outlawed Catholicism in Maryland
The sole Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence: Can you name him?
The surprisingly powerful anti-Catholic sentiments of most of the Founding Fathers
The friend of George Washington who became the first Bishop of Baltimore
The great Catholic post-Revolutionary War migration from Maryland to Kentucky
The cosmopolitan colony whose robust religious liberty was more favorable that Maryland to Catholicism
The Quaker/Catholic alliance that promoted both religions
The role of persecuted Catholics in the Revolutionary War
Why, in that War, many Catholics favored the anti-Catholic British
The French Jesuits who evangelized New York and its frontier areas, and the saints who were martyred there
The Iroquois maiden who converted and became a saint
The years in which, throughout the colonies, Catholics became an endangered species
Plus: much more to acquaint you with the proud heritage of Catholics in the earliest years of our nation!
Catholic readers will be proud to learn from these pages that despite almost two centuries of ever-more-intense religious persecutions and even harsher legal prohibitions, American Catholics in the colonies simply refused not to be Catholic.
These pages show that from the Jesuit manor houses that planted the seeds of faith in Maryland to the solitary missionary priests who evangelized the New York regions, Catholics kept the faith . . . even unto death.
Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars is indispensable reading for souls interested in the deep roots of Catholicism in America, and in the holy courage of scores of Catholics who kept remorseless forces from snuffing their faith out.
Among other things, you’ll learn here:
Why Catholics left the old world for America: their reasons were often not religious
The tale of The Ark and The Dove that carried the first settlers to Maryland
The Puritan ascendancy that too soon outlawed Catholicism in Maryland
The sole Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence: Can you name him?
The surprisingly powerful anti-Catholic sentiments of most of the Founding Fathers
The friend of George Washington who became the first Bishop of Baltimore
The great Catholic post-Revolutionary War migration from Maryland to Kentucky
The cosmopolitan colony whose robust religious liberty was more favorable that Maryland to Catholicism
The Quaker/Catholic alliance that promoted both religions
The role of persecuted Catholics in the Revolutionary War
Why, in that War, many Catholics favored the anti-Catholic British
The French Jesuits who evangelized New York and its frontier areas, and the saints who were martyred there
The Iroquois maiden who converted and became a saint
The years in which, throughout the colonies, Catholics became an endangered species
Plus: much more to acquaint you with the proud heritage of Catholics in the earliest years of our nation!
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