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On August 11, 1834, an Ursuline Convent on Mt. Benedict, in what is now Somerville, was vandalized and then burned to the ground by an anti-Catholic mob.
Author and Salem State Professor Emeritus Nancy Schultz explores the tensions over class, gender, religion, ethnicity, and education that fueled the convent’s destruction at Aeronaut Brewery.