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Title: Errors of the Roman Catholic Church : and its insidious influence in the United States and other countries by the most profound thinkers of the present day, and the history and progress of the American Protective Association (A.P.A.)
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hershey, Scott Funk, 1852-
Subjects: Catholic Church
Publisher: St. Louis : J.H. Chambers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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to death, they being unableto assist each other in that melancholy plight. Daniel Bench being apprehended, had his nose slit, andhis ears cut off; after which, lie was divided into quarters,and each quarter hung upon a tree. Mary Monino had herjaw-bones broken, and was then left to languish till she wasstarved to death. Why is it that the greatest men of our nation are non-Catholics? The great men of our nation have been, and are,and will continue to be Protestant. The great philanthropists,the great orators, the great writers, thinkers, leaders, scientists,inventors and teachers of our land have been Protestants.When I reflect that out of 70,000,000 of this nation we numberonly 9,000,000, and that out of that 9,000,000 so large a pro-portion is made up of liquor dealers, poor factory hands, milland shop and mine and railroad employes, I fail to find materialfor buncomb, and yet we are all eulogizing ourselves.—MissM. T. Elder, in Essay before Catholic Congress at WorldsFair. (512)
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The iron bur fell on his chest. Page 531. PERSECUTIONS m PIEDMONT. 513 Mary Pelancliion, a widow, of the town of Villaro, wasseized by a party of the Irish brigades, who, having beather cruelly, and ravished her, dragged her to a high bridgewhich crossed the river, and stripping her naked, hung herby the legs to the bridge, with her head downwards towardsthe water, and then going into boats, they shot her. Mary Nigrino, and her daughter, a poor idiot, were cut topieces in the woods, and their bodies left to be devoured bywild beasts; Susanna Bales, a widow of Villaro, was im-mured and starved to death; and Susanna Calvo, runningaway from some soldiers, and hiding herself in a barn, theyset fire to the straw, by which she was burnt to death. Daniel Bertino, a child, was burnt; Paul Armand washacked to pieces; Daniel Michialino, having his tongueplucked out, was left to perish in that condition; andAndreo Bertino, a lame and very old man, was mangled ina most shocking manner, and at len

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