Death, Grief & Bereavement, Religious & Liturgical Drama, General & Miscellaneous Church History, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, Northeastern & Middle Atlantic Region - History - General & Miscellaneous, Historical Fiction
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Overview
During his tenure from 1869 to 1887, Father Bourassa’s pulpit was a place of manipulation, slander and frequent excommunication of those who opposed him. While abusing his powerful position, the tyrannical priest built an empire on the backs of the French Canadian millworkers of the ‘Flats’ of the growing city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. Water’s Redemption, a historical fiction, traces the interconnecting lives of families trapped within the parish boundaries of Father Bourassa and the efforts made to remove him as his attack on his people mounted.“This experience as well as some that the Irish Catholics have gone through, is teaching these people a little independence. It is encouraging to see the superstitious veneration for the priests weakening and when the people learn that a priest is to be blamed when he does wrong, the same as any other man, the priests themselves will be more apt to do right.” Springfield Daily Republican, October 26, 1879.
If you loved Fortune’s Rock, this book is for you.
Book Details
Published
July 19, 2011
Publisher
Lulu.com
ISBN
9781257895809