Ursuline Convent Riots

Quand

12 août 1834

Type

Émeute

Coordonnées

42.39° N, 71.08° W

Description

Mob violence and destruction of Catholic Convent in 1830s Boston

Mob violence and destruction of Catholic Convent in Boston

The Ursuline Convent riots occurred on 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. 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.

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