{"product_id":"pioneer-priests-and-makeshift-altars-charles-p-connor-9781682780329","title":"Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars: A History of Catholicism in the Thirteen Colonies","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this comprehensive history, Fr. Charles Connor details the life of Catholics in the American Colonies. It's a tale that begins 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatholic readers will be proud to learn that despite almost two centuries of ever-more-intense religious persecutions and even harsher legal prohibitions, American Catholics in the colonies simply refused to abandon the Catholic Faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an indispensable reading for souls interested in the deep roots of Catholicism in America, and in the holy courage of scores of Catholics who kept remorseless forces from driving Catholicism out of America. Among other things, you'll learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe tale of The Ark and The Dove that carried the first settlers to Maryland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe surprisingly harsh anti-Catholic sentiments of most of the Founding Fathers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Quaker\/Catholic alliance that promoted both religions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe role of persecuted Catholics in the Revolutionary War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy, in that War, many Catholics favored the anti-Catholic British.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe French Jesuits who evangelized New York and its frontier areas, and the saints who were martyred there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe years in which, throughout the colonies, Catholics became an endangered species.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fr Charles Connor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682780325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682780329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ewtn Publishing Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.81d\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Fr Charles Connor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074744807679,"sku":"9781682780329","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a1de781-8e05-413c-9d81-c74969cc2b54.jpg?v=1685455526","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pioneer-priests-and-makeshift-altars-charles-p-connor-9781682780329","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}