Tales from the Vatican Vaults: 28 extraordinary stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Garry Kilworth, Mary Gentle, KJ Parker, Storm Constantine and many more
Author:David V. Barrett
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781472111708
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2015-08-05T18:30:00+00:00
1814/41
The USA is no stranger to wild weather. The hurricane of 4 October 1841 was considered one of the most destructive in the early history of the United States, causing more than $2 million in damage (nearly $50 million today) in New York City alone, when the city was still rebuilding from the Great Fire of 1835.
There was another hurricane over a quarter of a century earlier in the city of Washington, that many believe turned the course of the war against the British.
This account of the 1814 storm by someone who was at the very centre of it was written just after the 1841 storm, and was sent on to Co-adjutor Bishop John Hughes of New York, a year before he became the city’s first Catholic Archbishop. The last page of the covering letter to Bishop Hughes, including the signature, is missing, but the concerned writer would appear to be a priest at St Peter’s Church on Barclay Street, the oldest Catholic parish in New York State.
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