Catholic Vermont

A Short & Unfinished History

Nicholas Clifford September 20, 2010 - 10:02am

Late in her life, the Vermont historian Abby Maria Hemenway recalled that, while she was a young girl in the early 1840s, she had a vision of Our Lady in a field behind her house in Ludlow. Not a common occurrence for a Yankee Baptist girl, you might think. But in fact such visions were not unknown at the time. Still very much a frontier territory, Vermont was far removed from the steadying influences of mainstream Protestantism in the more settled regions of New England, and the local...

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Pope Benedict XVI
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Nicholas Clifford, a professor emeritus of Middlebury College, has written about Shanghai history in the early twentieth century.

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