Story: When mobs were burning Catholic churches in the United States in the 1930s, what the Catholics of New York City did,

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How the Catholic Church saved New York City, Part 2

Bishop “Dagger John” Hughes stared down and defeated the angry anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic mobs that threatened Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

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After nativist mobs torched churches, bringing about multiple deaths in Philadelphia, they turned their sights on New York. They prepared for a torch-lit assault of Old St. Pat’s, but Bishop “Dagger John” Hughes organized between 1,000 and 2,000 Irish men to defend each church in the city, placing sharpshooters on the walls of Old St. Pat’s.

Then the mob preparing to attack Saint Patrick’s Church never came.

Such mob attacks never occurred again.

 

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After nativist mobs torched churches, bringing about multiple deaths in Philadelphia, they turned their sights on New York. They prepared for a torch-lit assault of Old St. Pat’s, but Bishop “Dagger John” Hughes organized between 1,000 and 2,000 Irish men to defend each church in the city, placing sharpshooters on the walls of Old St. Pat’s.

Then the mob preparing to attack Saint Patrick’s Church never came.

Such mob attacks never occurred again.

Bishop Hughes visited the mayor of New York with a pastoral message: “If yez burn our churches, we’ll burn your town.”