Hugh MacDonald

by Watts, John

"This is the fascinating story of a man who belonged to one of the most important families of the West Highlands - the MacDonalds of Morar - and who played a crucial role in the development of the Catholic Church, both in Scotland and the New World." "As the first Scottish-trained Catholic priest and the first Highland bishop since the Reformation, Hugh MacDonald was forced to run his diocese clandestinely from a number of different places under a variety of aliases. For forty years he led his people through events that were to change the Highlands forever - the Jacobite rebellion of 1745...

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