Category: Government, Politics & Law, Political Parties, Know-nothing
Item 5208
Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1854-07-06 Location: Bath Media: Oil on canvas
Item 5283
First phase, burning of the Old South Church, Bath, 1854
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1854-07-06 Location: Bath Media: Oil on canvas
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
