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Ursuline Convent riots

"Ruins of the Ursuline Convent, at Charlestown, Massachusetts," historical print, 1834, collection of the Charlestown Historical Society.

The Ursuline Convent riots occurred August 11 and 12, 1834, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, near Boston, in what is now Somerville, Massachusetts. During the riot, a convent of Roman Catholic Ursuline nuns was burned down by a Protestant mob.[1] The event was triggered by reported abuse of a member of the order, and was fueled by the rebirth of extreme anti-Catholic sentiment in antebellum New England.

  1. ^ Lusignan Schultz, Nancy (2000). Fire & Roses : The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. New York: The Free Press. pp. 3–37. ISBN 978-1555535148.

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