---
title: 'Under the Yoke'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Julia McNair Wright'
date: 1871-02-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Roman Catholic History'
- 'Fiction'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 19'
- 'Ephesians 5'
- 'Galatians 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1871-under-the-yoke
---

# Under the Yoke

1871 magazine fiction: an interrupted wedding when a Catholic priest halts the ceremony because the groom won't promise to raise children Catholic, exposing sectarian conflict and family strife.

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