St. Augustine’s Church, Plate following p. 30, in A full and complete account of the late awful riots in Philadelphia : embellished with ten engravings.

An account of the anti-Catholic riots which broke out in the Philadelphia suburb of Kensington during May of 1844, during which 9 people were killed, 20 wounded and 3 Catholic churches burned to the ground. Appended to the principal account is a 36 page description of the July riots in Southwark, another Philadelphia suburb, in which a Nativist mob attacked the parishioners of St. Philip’s Church, disbanded their militia, badly beat fleeing Catholics and set fire to the church.

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is part of: Conflict in the Cradle of Liberty: The Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844
contributing repository: Villanova University, Falvey Library
title: St. Augustine’s Church, Plate following p. 30, in A full and complete account of the late awful riots in Philadelphia : embellished with ten engravings.
date(s) created: 1844
creator(s): Philadelphia : John B. Perry
language: English
subjects: Religion, Education, Immigration, Irish Americans
identifier (local): OA F158.44.F9 1844
link to item in repository’s digital library: https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:94648
rights: https://digital.library.villanova.edu/rights.html