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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... mind given to distraction . Though he would be the first to admit he wasn't always able to conquer it , he firmly believed that it was only through an intimate knowledge of suffering that one truly knew God . Out of habit , he fingered ...
... mind given to distraction . Though he would be the first to admit he wasn't always able to conquer it , he firmly believed that it was only through an intimate knowledge of suffering that one truly knew God . Out of habit , he fingered ...
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... advantage. He was not normally a man to lose his temper, not even with Yvette, but his mind was restive, on other matters. His face was unshaven, the flesh around his eyes drawn and haggard . He had not been out of bed.
... advantage. He was not normally a man to lose his temper, not even with Yvette, but his mind was restive, on other matters. His face was unshaven, the flesh around his eyes drawn and haggard . He had not been out of bed.
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... mind , brilliant , gem - like . The high , whitewashed walls , the late - summer lushness of the flowers , the trees heavy with fruit , a ripe , almost cloying odor hanging in the dull torpid air . The profound stillness of the place ...
... mind , brilliant , gem - like . The high , whitewashed walls , the late - summer lushness of the flowers , the trees heavy with fruit , a ripe , almost cloying odor hanging in the dull torpid air . The profound stillness of the place ...
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... mind swirling with thoughts and images , half - recalled songs from home , scraps from a life which seemed as unreal , as distant as the moon . And when he did manage finally to fall asleep , it felt as if he were falling , plunging ...
... mind swirling with thoughts and images , half - recalled songs from home , scraps from a life which seemed as unreal , as distant as the moon . And when he did manage finally to fall asleep , it felt as if he were falling , plunging ...
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