Before the Civil War, during the Know Nothing persecution of Catholics, the Bishop of New York, John Hughes, told the Know Nothing leaders that if Protestant mobs destroyed Catholic churches, New York would be turned into “another Moscow “, referring to the destruction of that city during the Napoleonic Wars. No destruction occurred, as had been the case in Philadelphia. The Catholics of 2020 should heed the lessons of their history.
I never knew this. And I went to a Catholic School!
Bishop John Hughes.
Also known as “Dagger John”.