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Issue Details: First known date: 1907... 1907 The House of Obed-Edom : A Tale of the Penal Days of the Catholic Church in Australia
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Mary Dempsey and Tom Pierce are engaged to be married. Uncertainty surrounds their marriage plans, however, because they are Catholic, and the last Catholic priest left New South Wales eight years earlier. The local government is hostile to Catholics; Tom notes that the government authorities seem to want 'to make the settlement of New South Wales a Church of England colony, and no other denomination was likely to be tolerated' (6). The Catholic community bands together in the hostile environment.

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Other imprint/s: new ed. - Melb: Australian Catholic Truth Society, 1926 (as "Before the Dawn").
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  • 1817
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