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	Saint Bartholomew's Day
		This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the feast of St. Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks, and it has been the subject of knotty historical disputes.
		That the royal decision of which the St. Bartholomew massacre was the outcome, was in nowise the result of religious disturbances and, strictly, did not even have religious incentives; the massacre was rather an entirely political act committed in the name of the immoral principles of Machiavellianism against a faction that annoyed the Court.
		He gave an account of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and begged Gregory XIII to grant, antedating it, the dispensation required for the legitimacy of the marriage of Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre, solemnized three weeks previously.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/bartholomews_day,saint.html (3752 words)

	Bartholomew St - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bartholomew, St, in the Christian Church, one of the 12 apostles of Christ (see Mark 3:14-19).
		St Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, mass slaying of Huguenots (Protestants) in Paris, on St Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572.
		The most important church of Frankfurt is the cathedral of St Bartholomew.
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	Saint Bartholomew's Day, massacre of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coligny was the first victim; his death was followed by the killing of minor leaders and of all Huguenots within reach of the soldiery and the mob.
		News of the massacres was welcomed by the Pope and the King of Spain.
		Protestants, however, were horrified, and the killings rekindled the hatred between Protestants and Catholics and resulted in the resumption of civil war (see Religion, Wars of).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-stb1artho.html (411 words)

	Persecutions in France, Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
		Persecutions in France, Massacre of St. Bartholomew, and Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
		The massacre of St. Bartholomew was a plan laid by the infamous Catharine de Medici, queen dowager of France, in concert with her weak and bigoted son, Charles IX., for the extirpation of the French protestants, who were called by the name of Huguenots.
		33.-After the massacre of Bartholomew, the protestants of France continued to be the subjects of cruel and bitter persecution from the papists, and yet in the midst of all, the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church, and the cause of God and of truth continued steadily to advance.
	www.bereanbeacon.org /history/persecution/persecutions_in_france.htm (3354 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
		This massacre of which Protestants were the victims occurred in Paris on 24 August, 1572 (the feast of St.
		Bartholomew), and in the provinces of France during the ensuing weeks, and it has been the subject of knotty historical disputes.
		The first point argued was whether or not the massacre had been premeditated by the French Court — Sismondi, Sir James Mackintosh, and Henri Bordier maintaining that it had, and Ranke, Henri Martin, Henry White, Loiseleur, H. de la Ferrière, and the Abbé Vacandard, that it had not.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13333b.htm (3768 words)

	Degenerate - Black Magic Woman - Chapter 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Within France itself, many public endorsements of the Massacre were hollow; good men, fearing that they might be next, publicly congratulated the King and Queen Mother for their vigilance.
		After struggling with the evidence, he was convinced, despite his prejudices, that the Massacre had been unleashed only to cover the role of the Queen Mother in the attempted assassination of the Admiral.
		Considering that she was also one who had pushed the conflict into open warfare as many times, it's patently fraudulent to claim for her, as some have done, a role as a force of reconciliation.
	www.diacritica.com /degenerate/8/catherine17.html (737 words)

	Bartholomew-3
		Nevertheless, he was massacred, and thrown from the window of a high chamber to the ground; after which they dragged him along the streets, the body being all the while scourged by some scholars, spurred on by their masters to this indignity.
		By the fortunate mismanagement of the person charged with the conduct of the massacre in the Faubourg St. Germain, the greater number of Protestants lodged in that quarter of the city were providentially enabled to effect their escape.
		The daughter of the ex-Chancellor was at Paris during the time of the massacre, and she also had the good fortune to save her life, through the protection of the Duchess of Guise.
	www.temcat.com /Batholomew/bartholomew3.htm (4681 words)

	The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
		OT until the day of universal restitution will the infamous atrocity perpetrated on the eve of St. Bartholomew, 1572, by the Roman Catholics on the unoffending Huguenots or Protestants of France, cease to be remembered with the most intense horror.
		The Queen-mother, finding that this part of her scheme had failed, represented to the king that the Huguenots were clamorous for revenge upon the nobles of the court for the attack upon Coligny.
		The massacre was carefully planned so as to break out at the same hour in various cities and in their suburbs.
	www.spurgeon.org /s_and_t/stbarts.htm (896 words)

	Outpost Gallifrey: Reviews
		As “The Massacre” can now only be listened to, it is through Steven’s dialogue and Purves’ narration that we learn that the Abbott of Amboise is the Doctor’s double, and this works surprisingly well as the audience is unsure as to whether the Doctor really is the Abbott or not.
		The first time I ever heard 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve' was when the CD was released; I'd previously obtained bootleg low-quality copies of many of the missing stories, but this wasn't one of them.
		Nevertheless, this is a trivial issue, and overall 'The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve' stands as one of the finest stories of the era.
	www.gallifreyone.com /review.php?id=w (4195 words)

	Bartholomew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bartholomew was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus.
		Bartholomew, along with Saint Jude Thaddeus is reputed to have brought the new religion of Christianity to Armenia in the 1st century.
		Bartholomew Roberts (referred to as Black Bart), was an infamous early eighteenth century pirate who traveled the coasts of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Bartholomew (775 words)

	The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
		The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre is most accurately viewed as a political rather than religious occurence; however, it had long lasting religious implications.
		The details of the massacre itself, its originators, and the political events surrounding it are ambiguous and historians are still in conflict over them.
		The massacre began with the execution of Gaspard de Coligny, a prominent protestant in Paris, led by Henri de Guise.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/church_history/70055 (379 words)

	The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve
		In the opening episode he goes to visit Charles Preslin, a revolutionary chemist of the period, but both the Doctor and Preslin drop out of the serial (Preslin never comes back at all, which is one of the weak points of the story).
		Lucarotti's script is literate and informative, and the overall realistic tone of the episode is a nice change of pace in this generally comedic season.
		Sadly, the ratings took a sharp plunge during The Massacre, hastening the doom of the historical serial...
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/hartnell/massacre.html (521 words)

	THE POPEâ
		The date of this event was August 24, the anniversary of the infamous St. Bartholomew Day Massacre in 1572, in which tens of thousands of Protestant Christians were butchered by Roman Catholics at the instigation of Catholic authorities.
		There were many obscure factors involved in the behind-the-scenes intrigue which led up to the massacre, but one very evident cause of the massacre was the repeated call by various popes for the extermination of the Protestants in France.
		On one side of the medal is a profile of the pope surrounded by his name and title and on the other side an angel is depicted bearing in one hand a cross and in the other a sword with which he is killing a fallen host of Huguenots.
	www.wayoflife.org /fbns/popephony.htm (1451 words)

	LC16 - The Massacre
		The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve was a mammoth undertaking in terms of a reconstruction.
		I just viewed the newest recon, The Massacre, and was in awe of the amount of work that you and your team has put in to it.
		When The Massacre was released by BBC AUDIO Collection I never ever thought while listening to it at the time I would in the future be able to see what the story was like.
	www.recons.com /recons/lc16.htm (2018 words)

	August 23: St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
		This atrocity is known to history as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre because it lasted well into that saint's day.
		The Massacre of St. Bartholomew was not the end of the matter.
		Sutherland, N. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the European Conflict.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/08/daily-08-23-2001.shtml (581 words)

	Bartholomew-4
		This lady, the widow of M. de Feuqueres, was also in Paris during the St. Bartholomew, and the dangers to which she was her self exposed, were still more formidable.
		But even at that distance of time after the massacre, the report of his singular escape having got abroad, fears were still entertained that an attempt would be made to gain possession of him.
		The judgment passed upon this massacre by all reflecting persons, even those least favorable to Protestantism, must be that no example of any such enormous atrocity can be found in the national annals of all the world.
	www.temcat.com /Batholomew/bartholomew4.htm (3343 words)

	Wars of Religion
		This third war was more protracted, and brought the war to the rural areas in central and southern France, spreading the suffering to the population and raising the cultural tensions between Catholics and Protestants.
		The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, as it came to be known, destroyed an entire generation of Huguenot leadership.
		In 1574, Charles IX died, sweating blood and reputedly tormented with guilt for the massacre.
	www.lepg.org /wars.htm (3850 words)

	St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Paris in Conflict and contemporary coin
		An early instance of conflict occurred in Paris in 1561 when a reformed minister was preaching in St. Medard (in the 5th arr.
		Vassy was a famous massacre of Protestants, celebrated in the city by Catholics.
		Guizot counts more massacres of Protestants by Catholics than vice versa between 1561 and 1572.
	home.eckerd.edu /~oberhot/paris-siege-stbarth.htm (974 words)

	August 24th
		A knife, consequently, became the emblem of St. Bartholomew, as may be seen on many of the old clog almanacks, described in a former part of this work.
		The fl turpitude and wickedness of the Bartholomew Massacre is very obvious; but it is not less true that it was a great blunder.
		He affirmed that he had seen Bartholomew the apostle in a vision, and that he had directed him to found a church and hospital in his honour in the suburbs of London, at Smithfield.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/24.htm (6882 words)

	The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from February 5 to February 26, 1966.
		She also insists that that the massacre is not confined to a list drawn up by Tavannes, containing supposed enemies of the state, but rather is aimed at all Protestants within the city walls – bar Prince Henri himself, despite his supposed pretensions to the throne.
		The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve at Outpost Gallifrey
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Massacre_of_St_Bartholomew's_Eve (2329 words)

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		The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, which is depicted on p.
		The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre indicated the fact that Wars of Religion were about religion, but also about state.
		It was the brutal leader of the ultra-Catholics, Henry, the Duke of Guise, who led the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
	www.augie.edu /dept/history/reli.htm (2012 words)

	August 24, Every-Day Book
		As it respects France, there is a shocking propriety in the epithet, for the horrid Massacre of the Protestants commenced on this day, in the reign of Charles IX.
		The "Perennial Calendar" quotes, that—"In that savage scene, the massacre of St. Bartholomew, planned with all the coolness of deliberation, five hundred gentlemen, protestants, and ten thousand persons of inferior rank were massacred in one night at Paris alone, and great numbers in the provinces.
		The shrine of this saint, at Rouen, had a privilege which was very enviable; it could once in a year procure the pardon of one criminal condemned to death in the prisons of that city: the criminal touched it, and pardon was immediate.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/236-aug24.html (564 words)

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		Among the most revolting features of the massacre were the part taken by women and children in the work of death, and the brutality with which the corpses of the dead were mutilated, and dragged through the streets.
		A medal was struck by Gregory XIIL to commemorate the massacrebearing on one face the inscription ilugonotoram Strages Slaughter of the Huguenotsto- gether with the figure of an avenging angel engaged in de.
		The treaty of St. 0-ermain, the marriage of Navarre, the collecting of the Huguenot leaders in Paris, the offensive demonstrations in the Low Countries, were elements in a diabolical scheme for their destruction.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/nwng/nwng0039.sgm (20054 words)

	Tracy Chevalier : The Virgin Blue : Background : St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
		Orchestrated by Charles IX’s mother Catherine de’ Medici, the intent was to strike at the heart of Huguenot nobility – many of whom had gathered in Paris for the marriage of Henry of Navarre and Margaret of Valois.
		An attempt had been made two days before on the life of Calvinist leader Admiral de Coligny, and when that failed Catherine persuaded her reluctant son to order the massacre to stem the growing power of French Protestants.
		The Massacre had a far-reaching effect, encouraging the killing of Huguenots across the countryside – eventually in the Cévennes, where the book is partly set.
	www.tchevalier.com /thevirginblue/background/stbart/index.html (172 words)

	St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bartholomew's Day massacre (Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy in French) was a wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of Charles IX.
		The massacres marked a turning-point in the French Wars of Religion by radicalizing the Huguenot faction.
		A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge Oil on canvas, by Millais.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Bartholomew's_Day_massacre (2196 words)

	Traditional Catholic Apologetics.net \| The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Of course the Vatican was alarmed, but the incident on St. Bartholomew's Day had nothing to do with Rome or the Catholic Church.
		" when even the famous Protestant historian professor Merriman admits that this was purely a political action.[10] the true story is, on the night preceding the feast of St. Bartholomew (23-24 Aug.) the bells of the church of St. Germain-en- Laye were rung, and the troops sallied forth to carry out their instructions.
		The massacre of St. Bartholomew was indeed unjustifiable, but it was done neither to promote religion nor at the instigation of the Church.
	www.catholicapologetics.net /bartholomews_day.htm (3899 words)

	Running Well - » The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
		Once the news of the Massacre reached the Vatican, celebrations were planned.
		Pope Gregory XIII ordered the cannons of Castel Sant’Angelo to be fired in salute, bells to be rung for a public day of thanksgiving, bonfires to be lit, the Te Deum sung (an early Christian hymn of praise to God), and a special commemorative medal to be struck in honour of the occasion.
		This painting is a criticism of the massacre it is a french painting made several centuries later.
	drbrooker.net /?p=82 (798 words)

	The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
		Robinson's note: The statesman and fair-minded historian De Thou (1553-1617), who as a young man witnessed the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, thus describes that terrible event.
		The signal to commence the massacre should be given by the bell of the palace, and the marks by which they should recognize each other in the darkness were a bit of white linen tied around the left arm and a white cross on the hat.
		Meanwhile Coligny awoke and recognized from the noise that a riot was taking place.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/barth.htm (697 words)

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