The Ursuline Convent riots occurred August 11 and 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.[1] 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.
- ^ Lusignan Schultz, Nancy (2000). Fire & Roses : The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834. New York: The Free Press. pp. 3–37. ISBN 978-1555535148.