THE SAINT BARTHOLOMEW’S DAY MASSACRE
{King Philip II 1527-1598} {King from 1556 to 1598}
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 French population embraced the Reformed Christian Faith.
The Reformed Christians were intent on planting colonies in the New World and this was absolutely anathema to King Philip and the Spanish Inquisition.
Gregory XIII (1572 to 1585
French Protestants were Colonizing the New World!!
The French Protestants ignored Pope Alexander’s Bull against colonizing the New World, and as early as 1562, they tried to establish a colony in the area now know as South Carolina. Queen Elizabeth I encouraged this colonization as they were her co-religionists and she also bore the title:Queen of France. That colony, under Jean Ribault, was wiped out by brutal Spanish soldiers from their base in Augustine, Florida. The French Protestants were also sending help to their suffering brethren in Holland, who were defying overwhelming odds in order to throw off the Spanish yoke.
Spain Replaced France as the Mainstay of the Vatican
All during the Dark Ages, France was known as the eldest daughter and main pillar of the Papacy. King Pepin of the Franks (the father of Charlemagne) had given the Papal States to the Pope almost 1000 years earlier. Almost half of the real estate in the country was owned by the clergy.With the establishment of the Jesuit Order, the Papacy became a totally Spanish owned and controlled institution. Their two main goals were: fight Protestant Christianity and keep all but Spanish away from the New World.
Francis Borgia (1510-1572)
{Jesuit General 1565-1572}
The Three Masterminds Behind The Massacre!!
The three masterminds behind the massacre of the French Protestants were: King Philip II, Pope Gregory XIII and Francis Borgia. Between this unholy trinity, it is hard to say which had the most zeal in shedding the blood of the saints.
The future Pope Gregory served as a legate to Philip II of Spain, being sent by Pope Pius V to investigate the Cardinal of Toledo. It was there that he formed a lasting and close relationship with the Spanish king, and the groundwork was laid for the extermination of the French Protestants.
Don Francis Borgia was the great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI and co-founder of the Jesuits with Ignatius LIEola. On his mother’s side he was descended from King Ferdinand of Aragon.
King Philip II was the most bigoted fanatic that ever counted beads or crossed himself before a crucifix. It was said that the only time he ever laughed was when he heard the report of the infamous massacre:
But nothing could exceed the satisfaction which the event occasioned in the mind of Philip the Second. There was an end now of all assistance from the French Government to the Netherlands Protestants.
“The news of the events upon St. Bartholomew’s Day,” wrote the French envoy at Madrid, St.Goard, to Charles IX. ,“arrived on the 7th September. The King, on receiving the intelligence, showed, contrary to his natural custom, so much gaiety, that he seemed more delighted than with all the good fortune or happy incidents which had ever before occurred to him. He called all his familiars about him in order to assure them that your Majesty was his good brother, and that no one else deserved the title of Most Christian. He sent his secretary Cayas to me with his felicitations upon the event, and with the information that he was just going to St. Jerome to render thanks to God, and to offer his prayers that your Majesty might receive Divine support in this great affair. I went to see him next morning, and as soon as I came into his presence he began to laugh, and, with demonstrations of extreme contentment, to praise your Majesty as deserving your title of Most Christian, telling me there was no King worthy to be your Majesty’s companion, either for valour or prudence. He praised the steadfast resolution and the long dissimulation of so great an enterprise, which all the world would not be able to comprehend… “
“I thanked him,” continued the ambassador, “and I said that I thanked God for enabling your Majesty to prove to his Master that his apprentice had learned his trade, and deserved his title of Most Christian King. I added, that he ought to confess that he owed the preservation of the Netherlands to your Majesty.” (The Rise of the Dutch Republic, vol. II, p. 483).
The French Protestants were Les Miserables
The work of extermination began suddenly in Paris with the ringing of church bells. Admiral Coligny – the Protestant leader – was stabbed and his body thrown out of the window.
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 100,000 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 feed 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 best and brightest people fled to Germany, Switzerland, England, Ireland and eventually the United States, 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
Pope Gregory was Jubilant when News of the Massacre Reached the Vatican!!
When news of the Massacre reached the Vatican, there was jubilation! Cannons roared – bells rung – and a special commemorative medal was struck to honour the occasion! The Pope commissioned Italian artist Vasari to paint a mural of the massacre-which still hangs in the Vatican!
!This is the same Pope Gregory XIII who MASSACRED the calendar in 1582 by omitting 11 days from the month of October. At the present time, the Gregorian calendar is used in most countries of the world.
The French Protestants were called Huguenots: President George Washington had a Huguenot ancestor, as did at least 4 other Presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, James Garfield. A Huguenot refugee named Apollos de Revoire settled in Boston, and had a son who signed his name Paul Revere… 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.
 
Medal struck by Pope Gregory XIII to commemorate the slaughter of over 100,000 French Christians
