Rev. 17:6).
The first Inquisition, known as the Midevil Inquisition, came into existence quietly . Pope Gregory IX launched in 1227 in order to exterminate the Cathars in Southern France. It is also referenced as the Albigensian Crusade. This inquisition did not succeed. So, Gregory IX upped the ante and rather than targeting only the leadership of the Cathars, he began to target the Cathars by direct investigation of coercion , tribunals, and executions. Some of the inquisitors were commissioned and given full indulgence just for the signing up to move against the Cathars. Over the next 700 years it is estimated by methodical historians that, at the order of multiple POPES there were between 50 and 100 million men, women, and children were murdered because they did not have the same worldview and adhered to sola scripture in obedience to the Word of God. The Waldensians were targeted next. It is interesting to note that the Jesuits and the Dominican Orders were sworn to allegiance to the POPE to maliciously carry out the murders. Though it took much longer the kill the 50 - 100 million women, children, and men they were able to extinguish the lives of about 10 times more people than HItler. The Inquisition continued up through the Mussolini rule in Italy in 1939- 1942. Croatia and Bosnia totaled the killing, in an even more brutal manner that Hitler, with the sanctioned complicity of the Vatican.
This is simply a matter of historical documentation and is not challenged by reputable historians expert in this subject.
Could this be the reference to the Whore who is "drunk with the blood of the martyrs.
John wrote this approximately in the year 100. I do not believe it is referring to medieval happenings but rather the blood of the Catholic martyrs who were being killed by Nero of the Roman Empire.
The prostitute woman of Revelation 17 is not the same woman of Revelation 12.