To: Dr. Eckleburg
The king of France slaughtered the Huguenots, not the Vatican (Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin were loyal only to themselves and their own interests).
10,812 posted on
07/01/2008 1:49:04 PM PDT by
wagglebee
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To: wagglebee
It was all part and parcel of the counter-Reformation.
Who do you think the King of France thought himself beholden to and therefore worked to please through his Jesuit emmissaries? At the time, over half of France was owned by the Catholic clergy.
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre10,835 posted on
07/01/2008 2:46:37 PM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
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