Catholic Boston - Couverture souple

Lester, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1467129526 ISBN 13 : 9781467129527

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2018

Synopsis

If you know anything about American history, you know the country was founded on the principle of religious tolerance. If you're more advanced, you know it depended on which religion.

Strange as it may seem today, it was illegal to practice Catholicism in Massachusetts until 1780, and the first public Mass wasn't celebrated until eight years later. However, by 1808, so much progress had been made that Pope Pius VII created the Diocese of Boston, which then encompassed all of New England. The community continued to grow throughout the 19th century, and by the early 1900s was a significant part of the Boston community, greatly bolstered by the waves of Irish and Italian Catholics immigrating in the US. The Catholic community had come of age, from newcomers with customs often perceived as strange, to being ever present at public events and in local, state, and national politics. This book traces the evolution of the Catholic community and its relationship with the larger Boston community, from its very humble beginnings in the 18th century through the death of influential Cardinal Richard J. Cushing in 1970.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas P. Lester currently serves at the archivist and records manager of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Many of the photographs within are from the collections of the diocesan archive.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1467129526
• ISBN 13: 9781467129527
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible