The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869

The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869.

[Transcriber's Notes: This production was derived from https://archive.org/stream/catholicworld08pauluoft/ catholicworld08pauluoft_djvu.txt. Page images are also available at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/browse.journals/cath.html Use a fixed pitch font to view the tables. Lengthy footnotes are highlighted with a light background.] [Footnote 1: The Massacre of St. Bartholomew: preceded by a History of the Religious Wars in the Reign of Charles IX. By Henry White. London: John Murray. 1868. 8vo, pp. xviii.-505. La St. Barthlemy, ses Origines, son Vrai Caractre, ses Suites. Par George Gandy. Revue des Questions Historiques. Tome ier, pp. 11-91, 32-391.] Few historical events have been more persistently used in arguments against the Catholic Church than the massacre of Admiral Coligny, and a great number of Protestant nobles and people, at Paris, on St. Bartholomew's day, 1572, by orders emanating from the court. Isolated from the religious wars in which it is but one of the darkest episodes, this affair has been set forward as an independent acta deliberate scheme of the Catholic party in Franceking, nobles, and clergyto extinguish Protestantism at a single blow. The numbers of the victims have been exaggerated to an extent incompatible with all contemporary statistics of population; and the massacre of St. Bartholomew has thus been transmitted, as if by a series of distorting mirrors, from the pamphlets of the time to the histories, sermons, periodicals, and school-books of our days, each reflection but a distortion of the last, and so exceeding it in unreality that at length truth had become utterly hopeless. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 56631
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Release Date: Feb 24, 2018
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