Nuns on the Run

Six Months in a Convent

In August 1834 Bostonians burned down a convent full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious testimony of a lazy teenager with a grudge.

Categories: History, Series 13

Tags: anti-Catholicism Boston, MA Catholicism Christianity civil law crime criminal law Massachusetts nativism nuns Presented by #13 Protestantism religion Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Published: May 15, 2023