Monday, December 12, 2011
Doesn't the history of Christianity move your heart, Part IV?
Quote, "...and of all Huguenots (Protestants) within reach of the soldiery and the mob. The macre continued even after a royal order to stop, and it spread from Paris into other sections of France. Macres continued into October (1572) reaching the provinces of Rouen, Lyons, Bourges, Orleans, and Bourdeaux. An estimated 3,000 were killed in Paris, 70,000 in all of France. News of the macres was welcomed by the Pope and the King of Spain. Protestants, however, were horrified, and the killings rekindled the hatred between Protestants and Catholics..."
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