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 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

“For me it is enough that God is here, to whose goodness I commend my soul.” St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572).

CATHERINE deMEDICI, INSPECTING THE MASSACRE WITH GLEE!

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.

FRESCO OF THE MASSACRE.

 In 1572, Catherine de Medici and her son, King Charles IX of France, in league with Pope Gregory XIII, carried out a plan to lure thousands of Protestants to Paris, ostensibly to attend a royal wedding between a Catholic princess and a Protestant nobleman.  The wedding was presented as an opportunity to seal the Peace of St. Germain between French Protestants and Catholics, which had ended the Third War of Religion in France.  Instead, it amounted to a successful plot to destroy Protestantism in France by murdering a significant percentage of leading Protestant nobles, and a large number of ordinary Protestants as well, estimated to be 60,000+