Tell it to the Hugonauts.
The hands of the Church are clean with the Huguenots, cuz they were persecuted by the state, not the Church.... less we're gonna go by vladimir998's standard.
Thus occurred the odious Massacre of St. Bartholomew, so called from the saint whose feast fell on the same day (24 August, 1572), Admiral Coligny being slain with many of his Huguenot followers. The massacre spread to many provincial towns. The number of victims is estimated at 2000 for the capital, and 6000 to 8000 for the rest of France. The king explained to foreign courts that Coligny and his partisans had organized a plot against his person and authority, and that he (the king) had merely suppressed it. Thus it was that Pope Gregory XIII at first believed in a conspiracy of the Huguenots, and, persuaded that the king had but defended himself against these heretics, held a service of thanksgiving for the repression of the conspiracy, and commemorated it by having a medal struck, which he sent with his felicitations to Charles IX. There is no proof that the Catholic clergy were in the slightest degree connected with the massacre.Even Wikipedia doesn't mention Church sanction of Huguenot massacres.Huguenots
1917 Catholic Encyclopedia
Just wanted to let you know that I find your posts very informative. Rather than just slinging around various inflammatory comments, you engage posters in well-reasoned, rational debate. You back up your claims with facts, and you show little evidence of bias.
Translation: Astronauts from the Houston area.
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