[Westbrook]

Is this what Christ asked his followers to do?

Self-defence is one thing, but treachery and genocide are not congruent with self-defence.

[Gamecock]

[Gamecock]

Pope Gregory XIII celebrated this massacre as a holy event and even issued a medal to commemorate it.

[Gamecock]

For a time it seemed that the Protestant cause in France had been completed crushed. Yet much like the violence against the early church in Christianity's infancy, this violence would strengthen the church around the world, for many Huguenots fled for safer lands, and as they went, they took the gospel with them. France's loss was the world's gain.

Amen

[vladimir998]

Why do so many Protestants lie?: “Pope Gregory XIII celebrated this massacre as a holy event and even issued a medal to commemorate it.”

The reality is best spelled out by Warren Carroll:
Pope Gregory XIII ordered a Te Deum said in thanksgiving for the deliverance of the French royal family and Christendom from Coligny’s alleged plot to murder the king, seize the crown, support the rebels in the Low Countries, and march on Rome.

However, the Pope was horrified by the cruelties of the massacre, sheeding tears and saying, “I am weeping for the conduct of the king [Charles IX], which is unlawful and forbidden by God.” Spanish ambassador Zuniga described him as “struck with horror” at the details of the massacre. Later the Pope said he wept for the many innocent dead, and refused to receive the assassin Maurevert in audience.

(The Cleaving of Christendom, Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 2000, 370).

BUT WHY LET FACTS AND HISTORICAL RECORDS INTERFERE WITH ANTI-CATHOLIC STUPIDITY????

And about the numbers:
http://www.unamsanctamcatholicam.com/history/79-history/255-bartholomew-day-massacre-death-toll.html

[Craftmore]

Catholics would do it again.Thier history no better than the muslims in killing other christians and jews.

[Tennessee Nana]

August 24, 1572

The Huguenots were murdered because of their Christian beliefs..

My ancestors were Huguenots from La Rochelle..

Im going to a St Bartholemew’s Day dinner in Atlanta next weekend..

[Flintlock]

Whilst Christians squabble.................

The muzzie headchoppers build their well-financed strength.

[Tainan]

Thank you. Excellent read; as are a few other articles on that site.

[ravenwolf]

I do not know who or what started it but i have no doubt that Religion is the culprit and it had nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

The religious leaders had Jesus killed because he was about to and did bring them down off of their pedestals, he did this by freely telling the truth which is the gospel.

The religious leaders did not give a dam about the truth, they just wanted to stay in power.

[Tennessee Nana]

France’s loss was the world’s gain.
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Up to 200,000 Huguenots fled from France...nobles, middleclass, educated, craftsmen

The Huguenot clockmakers went to Switaerland...

the weavers to England, Ireland and the US..

The goldsmiths and silversmiths like the Reveres went to the US ..

Frances loss was the New Worlds gain..

By the time of the Revolution, there was nobody left to care about the king and the Catholic Church..

Just the king, the Cardinal and the rabble...

[MinuteGal]

My maternal grandparents immigrated here from Germany at the turn of the century. I found out later that my grandmother's forebearers were Huguenots who fled France for the safety of a Protestant state in northern Germany.

Voila! This fact unexpectedly added a French strain to our ancestoral genetic and cultural inheritance.

Leni

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