Nancy Lusignan Schultz

Books by Nancy Lusignan Schultz

Fire & Roses

The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834

In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirli...
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