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Friday, September 10, 2010
Burning the Pope in Effigy
Some of my ancestors came from Ulster, where lives the Orange Order. One of the tenets of the Orange Order was an unremitting fight against Popery. So this post in Religion in American History, recalling a little-known order of General Washington, condemning the burning of the Pope in effigy, was interesting to me. (The context: early in the Revolution its leaders hoped to get Canada, i.e., Quebec, to join the rebellion.)
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