The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre.Translate into: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese Last updated Feb. 24, 2002 Believe it or not.....the ancient Irish records talk about a "Senior Patrick" who died on August 24, 465. This, we believe, is the home-going date of the Real St. Patrick versus March 17 for the death of Palladius!! The Scots (Irish) missionaries had great success in France during the Dark Ages. One of the greatest, Johannis Scotus Erigena, was founder of the University of Paris.
An Eyewitness Account of the Saint
Bartholomew's Day Massacre August 24, 1572, was the date of the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France. On that day, over 400 years ago, began one of the most horrifying holocausts in history. The glorious Reformation, begun in Germany on October 31, 1517, had spread to France—and was joyfully received. A great change had come over the people as industry and learning began to flourish, and so rapidly did the Truth spread that over a third of the population embraced the Reformed Christian Faith. However, alarm bells began to ring at the Vatican! France was her eldest daughter and main pillar—the chief source of money and power. . . . King Pepin of the Franks (the father of Charlemagne) had given the Papal States to the Pope almost 1000 years earlier. Almost half the real estate in the country was owned by the clergy. Meanwhile, back in Paris, the King of France and his Court spent their time drinking, reveling and carousing. The Court spiritual adviser—a Jesuit priest— urged them to massacre the Protestants—as penance for their many sins! To catch the Christians off-guard every token of peace, friendship, and ecumenical good will was offered. Suddenly—and without warning—the devilish work commenced. Beginning at Paris, the French soldiers and the Roman Catholic clergy fell upon the unarmed people, and blood flowed like a river throughout the entire country. Men, women, and children fell in heaps before the mobs and the bloodthirsty troops. In one week, almost 100,100 Protestants perished. The rivers of France were so filled with corpses that for many months no fish were eaten. In the valley of the Loire, wolves came down from the hills to feel upon the decaying bodies of Frenchmen. The list of massacres was as endless as the list of the dead! Many were imprisoned—many sent as slaves to row the King's ships—and some were able to escape to other countries. . . . The massacres continued for centuries. The best and brightest people fled to Germany, Switzerland, England, Ireland and eventually America and brought their incomparable manufacturing skills with them. . . . France was ruined. . . . Wars, famine, disease and poverty finally led to the French Revolution—the Guillotine—the Reign of Terror—the fall of the Roman Catholic Monarchy—atheism—communism etc., etc. When news of the Massacre reached the Vatican there was jubilation! Cannons roared—bells rung—and a special commemorative medal was struck—to honor the occasion! The Pope commissioned Italian artist Vasari to paint a mural of the Massacre—which still hangs in the Vatican! 
Medal struck by Emperor Gregory XIII (1572-85) to commemorate the slaughter of over 100,000 French Christians!!
The Huguenots won a short period of relief from persecution with the ascension of Henry IV to the throne. The Edict of Nantes gave full freedom to his Protestants subjects. The signing of this Edict inaugurated an era of peace and great prosperity for France. However, for granting his subjects liberty of conscience, the king was stabbed to death by a Jesuit named Ravaillac. This Edict of Toleration was revoked in 1685, and a new storm of persecution ensued. The exodus began again with over a million Huguenots fleeing France to avoid certain torture and death. The descendants of the survivors that reached America were determined that this tragedy should not occur here. Many of them were prominent in the founding of the country. They knew that an armed citizenry in France would have prevented this tragedy from ever happening—and as a result—they gave us the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution. They knew that freedom of religion and an armed citizenry go hand in hand: Amendment 1
Amendment 2
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
The French Protestants were called Huguenots: President George Washington had a Huguenot ancestor, as did at least 5 other Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, James Garfield, and Theodore Roosevelt. A Huguenot refugee named Apollos de Revoire settled in Boston, and had a son who signed his name Paul Revere! Remember his famous midnight ride? Three members of the Continental Congress - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and Elias Boudinot were Huguenots. Other great names include Francis Marrion, General George Patton, Clair Chennault, Admiral Dewey, Du Ponts, Henry Thoreau, Longfellow etc., etc. A Huguenot colony was founded in Florida in 1562 (years before the English landed), but was later destroyed by Spanish raiders. King of France calls upon Irish Scholar to refute the Mass!! Editor's Note President Clinton has been called the most anti-gun President in history. He is a '68 graduate of Georgetown University in Wash. DC, - a Jesuit Institution that specializes in placing its graduates in high positions within the U.S. Government and the foreign diplomatic service.... Rome wants to repeat this slaughter in the U.S. as soon as she can disarm the law-abiding citizens. According to the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX, it is an ERROR to say that the "church" has not the right to use force.
Patrick Henry (another great Scot) gave us the 2nd Amendment.
America's Founding Fathers on way to church with Bibles and GUNS!! Our modern gun-banners would have told the Pilgrim Fathers to throw away their guns and trust themselves to the mercy of the merciless Roman Inquisition. It they had listened to that advice there would be no United States of America today!! Join the National Rifle Association and help preserve religious freedom. Gun Owners of America: helping preserve the Second Amendment. Gun Owners Home Page....KeepandBearArms.com....2nd Amendment Supporters. Read The Vatican's Holocaust by Avro Manhattan and find out why an armed citizenry is vital to religious freedom!!Rome calls for gun control! According to the Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX, it is an ERROR to say that the "church" has not the right to use force.
"It's Time to End American Liberty" says Rome!!This is the Official Roman position on the 2nd Amendment Right of the People to Bear Arms. It is an Editorial from the Catholic Weekly, Catholic New York, August 10, 2000. WHAT IS IT, really, with hard-fine opponents of gun control? Their position has become so entrenched that they bitterly oppose any restrictions on either firearms or their users, no matter how reasonable. That would include, for example, a ban on the general sale of automatic weapons, or the registration of firearms, or measures that would require child safety locks on guns—to name just a few. It is surely difficult to come up with any reason why automatic weapons should be available to the general public. It is no easier to argue that firearms should not be registered, as automobiles are or household pets. And a gun owner named Andrew Cuomo—federal secretary for housing and urban development, and the son of former New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo—put the safety lock question in perspective when he asked: Why would anyone object to safety devices on guns to protect little children when safety caps are put on aspirin bottles for the same reason? Cuomo posed the latter question at a Manhattan press conference earlier this month in which a panel of religious leaders asked for congressional action to keep guns "out of the hands of children, and criminals." For nearly a year, panel members complained, legislation to close "the gun-show loophole that allows criminals to obtain guns without a background check" and to mandate child safety locks had been stalled in Congress. They asked the American people to help them end the deadlock. The panel members include Sister Mary Rose, McGeady, D.C., director of Manhattan-based Covenant House, a shelter for troubled youths, many of whom have experienced violence in their home neighborhoods. Her own Brooklyn parish, she said, asks worshipers each week to turn in any guns they might own. "I would like to see every church and synagogue do likewise," she added. Opponents often ridicule gun-control measures because, they assert, those who support them claim they'll put an end to crime. Of course they won't. But what they will do, beyond a doubt, is to cut the number of senseless accidental deaths that take place each year, especially among young people.That's a matter of basic common sense. The fewer weapons there are around, and the more childproof they're required to be, the fewer young lives will be lost. That's for openers. Beyond that, the adoption of reasonable gun-control measures is likely to lead all Americans to take a second look at our historical attitudes toward weapons. For too long they have been treasured icons of our society. It's time for that to end. Extremists on one side say all weapons should be banned. Extremists on the other side argue against any restrictions whatever. Reasonable people in the middle are willing to take a fresh look at the question in light of the staggering number of gun-related deaths and injuries that darken our national soul. They're the people the religious panelists are trying hard to reach. At the very least, they deserve a fair hearing. "No Bibles or guns in my States" Pope says.Despatches from Rome page 322336 (Foreign 0ffice
43/96A] Rome, 8 February 1866 Odo Russell to Earl of Clarendon. The Papal States had an army of 20,000 soldiers out of a population of 600,000. Per capita, this was the largest in the world. References Foxe's
Book of Martyrs.
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