Category Archives: Ursuline History

Today in Catholic History – The Ursuline Convent Riots

On the 11 August 1834, angry mobs of Protestants burned a convent of the Ursulines to the ground in Charleston, Massachusetts (near Boston). Prior to the attack, tensions had been growing between the Catholics and Protestants. The vast majority of the women enrolled at the school operated by the Ursulines belonged to the the Protestant […]

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