Chapter 1 |
The Bible and the priest of Rome |
Chapter 2 |
My first schooldays at St. Thomas
The monk and celibacy |
Chapter 3 |
The confession of children |
Chapter 4 |
The shepherd whipped by his sheep |
Chapter 5 |
The priest, purgatory, and the poor widow's cow |
Chapter 6 |
Festivities in a parsonage |
Chapter 7 |
Preparation for the First Communion
Initiation to idolatry |
Chapter 8 |
The First Communion |
Chapter 9 |
Intellectual education in the Roman Catholic college |
Chapter 10 |
Moral and religious instruction in the Roman Catholic colleges |
Chapter 11 |
Protestant children in the convents and nunneries of Rome
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Chapter 12 |
Rome and education
Why the Church of Rome wants to destroy the common schools of the United States
Why she objects to the reading of the Bible in the schools |
Chapter 13 |
Theology of the Church of Rome: its anti-social and anti-christian character |
Chapter 14 |
The vow of celibacy |
Chapter 15 |
The impurities of the theology of Rome |
Chapter 16 |
The priests of Rome and the Holy Fathers; or, how I swore to give up the Word of God to follow the word of men
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Chapter 17 |
The Roman Catholic priesthood, or ancient and modern idolatry
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Chapter 18 |
The dogma of transubstantiation
The old paganism under a Christian name |
Chapter 19 |
Vicarage and life at St. Charles, how the Church survives the immorality and dabauchery of its priests |
Chapter 20 |
Blue devils at the grand dinner of the priests
The maniac sister of Rev. Mr. Perras |
Chapter 21 |
I am appointed vicar of the curate of Charlesbourgh
The piety, lives and deaths of Fathers Bedard and Perras |
Chapter 22 |
Simony
Strange and sacrilegious traffic in the so-called body and blood of Christ
Enormous sums of money made by the sale of Masses to retrieve souls from purgatory
The Society of Three Masses abolished, and the Society of One Mass established |
Chapter 23 |
Canadian masses sold in Paris for a discount |
Chapter 24 |
Quebec Marine Hospital
The first time I carried the "Bon Dieu" (the wafer god) secretly in my vest pocket |
Chapter 25 |
Dr. Douglas
My first lesson on temperance
Study of anatomy
Working of alcohol in the human frame
The murderess of her own child
I forever give up the use of intoxicating drinks |
Chapter 26 |
Coversions of Protestants to Romanism
Rev. Parent's peculiar way of finding and converting Protestants
How he spies on the Protestants through the Confessional
I persuade ninety-three families to become Catholics |
Chapter 27 |
The murders and thefts in Quebec from 1835 to 1836
The night excursion with two thieves
The restitution
The dawn of light |
Chapter 28 |
Chambers and his accomplices condemned to death
Asked me to prepare them for their terrible fate
A week in their dungeon
Their sentence of death changed into deportation to Botany Bay
Their departure for exile
I meet one of them a sincere convert, very rich, in a high and honorable position in Australia in 1878 |
Chapter 29 |
Miracles
Attack of typhoid fever
Apparition of St. Anne and St. Philomene
My sudden cure
The curate of St. Anne du Nord almost a disguised Protestant |
Chapter 30 |
My nomination as curate of Beauport
Degradation and ruin of that place through drunkenness
My opposition to my nomination useless
Preparation to establish a Temperance Society
I write to Father Mathew for advice |
Chapter 31 |
The hand of God in the establishment of a Temperance Society in Beauport and vicinity |
Chapter 32 |
Foundation of temperance societies in the neighboring parishes
I am ordered to drink wine by my bishop
Monsignor De Forbin Janson, Bishop of Nancy publicly defends me against the Bishop of Quebec and forever breaks the opposition of the clergy |
Chapter 33 |
The god of Rome eaten by rats |
Chapter 34 |
Visit of a Protestant stranger
He throws an arrow into my priestly soul never to be taken out |
Chapter 35 |
Sent to succeed Rev. Mr. Varin, Curate of Kamouraska
Stern opposition of that curate and the surrounding priests and people
Hours of desolation in Kamouraska
The Good Master allays the tempest and bids the waves by still |
Chapter 36 |
Organization of temperance societies in Kamouraska and surrounding country
The girl in the garb of a man in the service of the curates of Quebec and Eboulements
Frightened by the scandals seen everywhere, I give up my parish of Kamouraska to join the "Oblates of Mary Immaculate of Longueuil" |
Chapter 37 |
Novitiate in the monastery of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate of Longueuil
Some of the thousand acts of folly and idolatry in the life of a monk
The spy system
The deplorable fall of one of the fathers and the Grand Vicar Quiblier
Sick in the Hotel Dieu of Montreal
Sister Urtubise: confirms Maria Monk
The two missionaries to the lumber men
What one of the best Father Oblates thinks of the monks and the monastery |
Chapter 38 |
I accept the hospitality of the Rev. Mr. Brassard of Longueuil
I give my reasons for leaving the Oblates to Bishop Bourget
He presents me with a splendid crucifix blessed by His Holiness for me, and accepts my services in the cause of temperance in the diocese of Montreal |
Chapter 39 |
Preparations for the last conflict
Longueuil the first to accept the great reform of temperance
In 200 Parishes 200,000 people take the pledge
Gold medal
Officially named Apostle of Temperance in Canada |
Chapter 40 |
My sermon on the Virgin Mary
Compliments of Bishop Prince
Stormy night
First serious doubts about the Church of Rome
Faithful discussion with the bishop
The Holy Fathers opposed to the modern worship of the Virgin
The branches of the vine |
Chapter 41 |
The Holy Fathers
New mental troubles at not finding the doctrines of my Church in their writings
Purgatory and the sucking pig of the poor man of Varennes |
Chapter 42 |
Letter from the Rev. Bishop Vandeveld, of Chicago
Vast project of the Bishop of the United States to take possission of the rich valley of the Mississippi and the prairies of the West to rule that great republic
They want to put me at the heart of the work
My lectures on temperance at Detroit
Intemperance of the bishops and priests of that city |
Chapter 43 |
My visit to Chicago in 1857
Bishop Vandeveld
His predecessor poisoned
Magnificent prairies of the West
Return to Canada
Letter encouraging emigration
Bad feelings of Bishop Bourget
I decline sending a rich woman to the nunnery to enrich the bishop |
Chapter 44 |
The plot to destroy my reputation
The interdict
The retreat at the Jesuit's college
The lost girl, emplyed by the bishop, retracts
The bishop confounded, sees his injustice, makes amends |
Chapter 45 |
I arrive at Chicago
I select the spot for my colony
I build the first chapel
Great success of the colony |
Chapter 46 |
Intrigues, impostures, and criminal life of the priests in Bourbonnais
Indignation of the bishop
The people ignominiously turn out the criminal priest from their parish
Frightful scandal
Faith in the Church of Rome seriously shaken |
Chapter 47 |
Colony grows
New chapel burned by arsonists
Bishop Vandeveld replaced by O'Regan
The bishop demands my house and garden |
Chapter 48 |
Pope Pious IX declares new dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
My parishioner asks some hard questions |
Chapter 49 |
My beautiful penitent teaches me the abominations of auricular confession |
Chapter 50 |
Misconduct of the priests at the ecclesiastical retreat
The bishop forbids me to distribute the Bible |
Chapter 51 |
Public acts of simony
Thefts and brigandage of Bishop O'Regan
General cry of indignation
I determine to resist him to his face
He employs Mr. Spink again to send me to jail
Abraham Lincoln defends me
My dear Bible becomes more than ever my light and my counselor |
Chapter 52 |
Bishop O'Regan's tyranny of the French Canadians of Chicago
He determines to turn me out of my colony and send me to Kahokia
He publishes that he has interdicted me
My people send a deputation to the bishop
His answers
The sham excommunication by three drunken priests |
Chapter 53 |
My people ask me to remain
I am tried in Urbana for immorality
Abraham Lincolm's anxiety
My distress
Miss Philomene Moffat sent by God to save me
Lebel's confession and distress
My innocence acknowledged
Noble words and conduct of Abraham Lincoln |
Chapter 54 |
The bishop's plot to dominate the cities
Rome the implacable enemy of the United States |
Chapter 55 |
My first visit to Abraham Lincoln to warn him of the plots I knew against his life
The priests circulate the news that Lincoln was born in the Church of Rome
Letter of the pope to Jeff Davis
My last visit to the president
His willingness to die for his nation's sake |
Chapter 56 |
Abraham Lincoln a true man of God
The assassination by Booth, the tool of the priests
Mary Surratt's house the rendezvous of the priests
John Surratt secreted away by the priests
News of the assassination known in St. Joseph, Minnesota, three hours before it occurred |
Chapter 57 |
Two priests, Brassard and Desaulnier, sent by the bishops of Canada to persuade us to submit to Bishop O'Regan
They acknowledge publicly that the bishop is wrong and that we are right
I consent to withdraw from the sontest on certain conditions
Desaulnier turns false and betrays us, to be put at the head of my colony
My last interview with them |
Chapter 58 |
Mr. Desaulnier is named Vicar-General of Chicago to crush us
Our People more united than ever to defend their rights
Letters of the bishops of Montreal against me, and my answer
Mr. Brassard forced, against his conscience, to condemn us
My answer to Mr. Brassard
He writes to beg my pardon |
Chapter 59 |
I send Pope Pius IX and Napoleon, Emperor of France, the legal and public documents proving the bad conduct of Bishop O'Regan
Grand-Vicar Dunn sent to tell me of my victory at Rome
I go to Dubuque to offer my submission to the bishop
The peace sealed and publicly proclaimed by Grand-Vicar Dunn the 26th March, 1858 |
Chapter 60 |
Excellent testimonial from my bishop
My retreat
Grand-Vicar Dunn writes me about the new storm prepared by the Jesuits
I refuse to remove the "Word of God" from my pledge
I am freed from the priesthood
Vision: Christ offers Himself as a gift
Back to my people
More than one thousand enter the Promised Land |
Chapter 61 |
I gently lead my people out of their superstitions
We give up the name of Roman Catholic
Dismay of the Bishops
Duggan, coadjutor of St. Louis, comes to St. Anne to persuade the people to submit to his authority
He is ignominiously turned out and runs away in fear for his life |
Chapter 62 |
Bird's eye view of the principal events after my conversion
My narrow escapes
The end of the voyage through the desert to the Promised Land |