Dagger John, New York City's most influential and vicious archbishop, had a huge impact, whether he was consecrating Calvary Cemetery and founding Fordham University, or peppering the mayor with threats to burn down the city.

"Are you afraid," asked the mayor, "that some of your churches will be burned?" "No, sir; but I am afraid that some of yours will be burned. We can protect our own. I come to warn you for your own good."

Highlights include: • The "Black Coats," aka America's evil wizards, aka the Jesuit colonizers • The Mohawks who built Manhattan • Threats to burn down the city • What happened on the land that became Calvary Cemetery • The first saint born in the US, a Protestant society woman with eleven children who became a Catholic nun • Secret societies in Ireland

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