St. Bart's Day Holocaust - August 24, 1572

In yet another historical example of christian love, today is the 435th anniversary of the French Catholic holocaust against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants). After three religious wars, a mixed marriage, and the threat of civil war, the god loving catholics of Paris massacred "several thousands or tens of thousands" of their non-papist brethren in christ.

A HUGUENOT, ON ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, REFUSING TO SHIELD HIMSELF FROM DANGER BY WEARING THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BADGE (1852), a painting by John Everett Millais.

"It depicts a pair of young lovers in an embrace. The familiar subject is given a dramatic twist because the "embrace" is in fact an attempt by the girl to get her beloved to wear a white armband, declaring his allegiance to Roman Catholicism. The young man gently pulls the armband off with the same hand with which he embraces the girl. The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 when French Protestants (Huguenots) were massacred in Paris, leading to other massacres elsewhere in France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city by wearing white armbands."
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