The Ursuline Convent Riots were riots that occurred on August 11 and August 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.
Read more about Ursuline Convent Riots: Background, Rebecca Reed, July–August, 1834, The First Riot: August 11, 1834, Response: The Faneuil Hall, Charlestown, and Cathedral Meetings, The Second Riot: August 12, 1834, Investigation, Arrests, and Trial, Restitution, Historical Interest in The Events
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“The nightingales are singing near
The Convent of the Sacred Heart,
And sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud,
And let their liquid siftings fall
To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)