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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Michael C. White. To Karen, again and always Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer :
Michael C. White. To Karen, again and always Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer :
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... thing on a night like this , " she said with a mischievous wink of a young girl . The Irish , he knew , were fiercely hospitable . They took offense easily and held grudges for ages . Though his stomach hardly felt like whiskey , so as ...
... thing on a night like this , " she said with a mischievous wink of a young girl . The Irish , he knew , were fiercely hospitable . They took offense easily and held grudges for ages . Though his stomach hardly felt like whiskey , so as ...
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... thing Cheverus wanted was to have to go and plead their case before a man he disliked as intensely as he did James Sullivan . " But you and Father Matignon are important people in this city , " Rose pleaded . " The man'll have to listen ...
... thing Cheverus wanted was to have to go and plead their case before a man he disliked as intensely as he did James Sullivan . " But you and Father Matignon are important people in this city , " Rose pleaded . " The man'll have to listen ...
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... thing his hand came into contact with was the cold stone wall of his cell. He shivered in the frigid darkness, his feet swollen and aching with chilblain. The turnkey maintained a fire in the small room at the end of corridor where he ...
... thing his hand came into contact with was the cold stone wall of his cell. He shivered in the frigid darkness, his feet swollen and aching with chilblain. The turnkey maintained a fire in the small room at the end of corridor where he ...
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... thing that passed for meat . And a pitcher of water that tasted of tallow . " Thank you , sir , ” said Daley , picking up his plate and Halligan's as well . “ You'll need to eat up quick lads , ” the man explained in an undertone , as ...
... thing that passed for meat . And a pitcher of water that tasted of tallow . " Thank you , sir , ” said Daley , picking up his plate and Halligan's as well . “ You'll need to eat up quick lads , ” the man explained in an undertone , as ...
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