The slaughter of cities
"Melior speramus, resurgens cineribus." We hope for better things, rising from the ashes. This is the motto of the city of Detroit, which was coined by Fr. Gabriel Richard whose parish church of Ste. Anne's was destroyed in the great fire which burned Detroit on June 11, 1805. Ever wonder how our o…
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