Draft:Ursuline chapel, Charlestown ma

The Ursuline chapel was a convent in Charlestown, MA. It was destroyed by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834, when anti Catholic sentiments ran high. The character of Boston changed significantly after an influx of Irish and German immigrants, and later Italian immigrants, changing New Englands religion composition. When the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston was completed, in 1875. The fact that best displayed Boston’s religious evolution was that some of the original stones taken from the old Ursuline convent were used in construction of the new Cathedral.