The Garden of MartyrsA Catholic parish is torn apart when two of its members are accused of murder The year 1806 is not a good time to be Catholic in Boston. When a man is brutally killed on the Boston Post Road, two unsuspecting Irishmen are charged with the crime. For five months they rot in prison, denied a lawyer until just two days before the hearing. It is a mockery of justice—a one-day trial that results in a unanimous verdict: The Irishmen will be hanged, dissected, and dismembered. Comforting them falls to Father Cheverus, a French émigré struggling to adapt to life in the New World. It is his duty to help the condemned find peace, but any overture he makes to the prisoners will be met with an anti-Catholic backlash that could destroy his fledgling congregation. As he walks a fraught path, the priest must decide: Is his obligation to his flock, or to God? |
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... carried farmers out to Dorchester after a day of selling milk or eggs or livestock at market, while now-empty carts pushed by fishmongers headed down toward the docks. Workers from the sail-duck factory or one of the many ropewalks ...
... carried farmers out to Dorchester after a day of selling milk or eggs or livestock at market, while now-empty carts pushed by fishmongers headed down toward the docks. Workers from the sail-duck factory or one of the many ropewalks ...
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... carry you, Father,” the big Irishman said to him. Cheverus glanced at him, saw that he was serious. “Heavens, no. That won't be necessary, Tom,” he told the man, embarrassed. “Lead on. I will follow.” The Irishman had come to the ...
... carry you, Father,” the big Irishman said to him. Cheverus glanced at him, saw that he was serious. “Heavens, no. That won't be necessary, Tom,” he told the man, embarrassed. “Lead on. I will follow.” The Irishman had come to the ...
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... carried away by the yellow fever outbreak a few years back, Rose had repaid the priest by knitting him a pair of socks. Now and then, though she could hardly feed her own large brood, she'd drop off at the rectory something she'd made ...
... carried away by the yellow fever outbreak a few years back, Rose had repaid the priest by knitting him a pair of socks. Now and then, though she could hardly feed her own large brood, she'd drop off at the rectory something she'd made ...
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... carry each day with quiet humility, yet one that sustained and nurtured them at the same time. He admired that terrible faith of theirs, longed to emulate it, and in some way he couldn't quite explain, feared it a little, too. But in ...
... carry each day with quiet humility, yet one that sustained and nurtured them at the same time. He admired that terrible faith of theirs, longed to emulate it, and in some way he couldn't quite explain, feared it a little, too. But in ...
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... Carrying torches and pushing a large cart with effigies of the pope and men dressed as devils, they wandered the streets of Boston, singing and destroying property and generally causing mayhem. And this year, on hearing of the murder by ...
... Carrying torches and pushing a large cart with effigies of the pope and men dressed as devils, they wandered the streets of Boston, singing and destroying property and generally causing mayhem. And this year, on hearing of the murder by ...
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