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The Catholic Refuge - The Woeful Country
He had been one of the most powerful men in England — Secretary of State to King James, knighted, wealthy, trusted at the King's right hand. Then George Calvert became a Catholic, refused the oath, and walked out of the center of English power to chase a single idea: a place across the ocean where a Catholic could worship without the law closing around him.
This is the story of what that idea cost him. A frozen colony on the edge of Newfoundland, where half his people sickened and the winter ran from October to May. A chaplain's denunciation that foreshadowed a revolt sixty years off. The…
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