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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... cross the street, he very nearly stepped into the oncoming path of a large roan horse pulling a cart loaded with steaming dung. “Hell, man, watch where you're going,” the driver scolded him. The small man looked up at the driver and ...
... cross the street, he very nearly stepped into the oncoming path of a large roan horse pulling a cart loaded with steaming dung. “Hell, man, watch where you're going,” the driver scolded him. The small man looked up at the driver and ...
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... cross that hung beneath his cloak . He could feel the well - worn engraving , the delicate filigree of silver cool against his skin . “ Je suis là , " his mother's voice came to him suddenly from the darkness , “ mon petit chou . " She ...
... cross that hung beneath his cloak . He could feel the well - worn engraving , the delicate filigree of silver cool against his skin . “ Je suis là , " his mother's voice came to him suddenly from the darkness , “ mon petit chou . " She ...
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... Cross Church an hour earlier. When the parish housekeeper, Yvette, answered the knock at the door, the man asked to speak to one of the two resident priests. Yvette was a thin, light- complected Negro from Guadeloupe, a former slave ...
... Cross Church an hour earlier. When the parish housekeeper, Yvette, answered the knock at the door, the man asked to speak to one of the two resident priests. Yvette was a thin, light- complected Negro from Guadeloupe, a former slave ...
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... . Just last October , Dominic and his young wife had had their baby baptized at Holy Cross . Cheverus could remember Daley , a great big lout of a man like his father , standing there, holding his tiny son in the crook of.
... . Just last October , Dominic and his young wife had had their baby baptized at Holy Cross . Cheverus could remember Daley , a great big lout of a man like his father , standing there, holding his tiny son in the crook of.
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... cross, kissed it, and placed it around his neck. He then took up his stole and his well-worn silver pyx box containing hosts, in case Rose Daley wished to take communion, and slipped them into the deep pockets of his cassock. Before he ...
... cross, kissed it, and placed it around his neck. He then took up his stole and his well-worn silver pyx box containing hosts, in case Rose Daley wished to take communion, and slipped them into the deep pockets of his cassock. Before he ...
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