Pioneer Priests And Makeshift Altars by Fr Charles Connor

Pioneer Priests And Makeshift Altars: A History of Catholicism in the Thirteen Colonies - by Fr Charles Connor.

In this compelling history, Fr. Charles Connor details the lives of Catholics in the American Colonies. Beginning with the flight of English Catholics to religious freedom in Maryland in 1634, and continues through the post-Revolutionary period, by which time the constitutions of all but four of the first 13 states contained harsh anti-Catholic provisions.

Readers will be proud to learn from these pages that despite almost two centuries of ever-more-intense religious persecutions and even harsher legal prohibitions, American Catholics in the colonies simply refused not to be Catholic.

From the Jesuit manor houses that planted the seeds of faith in Maryland to the solitary missionary priests who evangelized the New York regions, Catholics kept the faith . . . even unto death.

This incredible Catholic book is indispensable reading for souls interested in the deep roots of Catholicism in America, and in the brave courage of scores of Catholics who kept remorseless forces from snuffing their faith out.

Softcover, 259 pages