Anne Dowriche of Anne du Bourg, a counselor in the Parliament of Paris who opposed using capital punishment for crimes of heresy. The third major event of the poem is a retelling of the bloody St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, an attack against Huguenots which began in Paris in 1572 and spread throughout France. Dowriche imagines the queen of France, the devoutly Catholic Catherine de Medici, fiercely proposing the infamous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. While St. Bartholomew’s Massacre was a real series of events, Dowriche invented the detail that Catherine de Medici proposed the killings. Though Catherine de Medici is a villainous character
Nuala Anne McGrail series Nuala Anne McGrail series The Nuala Anne McGrail series of mystery novels were written by Roman Catholic priest and author Andrew M. Greeley. The novels feature Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband, Dermot Michael Coyne. There are twelve novels in the series: Nuala Anne McGrail (née "Moire Phioulaigh Ain Mac Griel", or "Marie Fionnuala Anne McGrail") is a native of Carraroe, County Galway, Ireland popular and a very successful professional singer. She is married to Chicago native Dermot Michael Coyne. They met in Ireland but maintain their principal residence in Chicago. Nuala Anne is "fey," or psychic (one of the