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Crossbows & Crucifixes: A Novel of the Priest Hunters and the Brave Young Men Who Fought Them
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Age Range: 10 and up
England, 1585: Queen Elizabeth's spies lurk everywhere, searching out Catholics who refuse to attend the non-Catholic services of the State religion. Officers of the law hunt down and kill Catholic priests, and imprison those who shelter them.
In these perilous times, fifteen-year-old Nicholas Thorpe discovers that his widowed mother has become Catholic, and he soon joins the Church she has come to love.
Thus begin Nicholas's adventures in the Companions, a pious undergrou...