Help! 16th Century Martyrs (Protestant/Catholic)

[constance]

Hi!

I am very excited to present a lecture with my husband about martyrs in sixteenth century Europe. We will be giving equal billing (regardless of Christian flavor) to people put to death for their beliefs.

While we are aware of many stories, I was interested in hearing your personal take on the subject - are there a few stories of individuals that touch you particularly? A few laws/edicts which strike you the most?



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Thank you for your time!

Constance

[reformedfan]

the butchery of the Huguenots has some gruesome & graphic tales.

Can ya lay your hands on a Foxe's book of martyrs? That'd be the thing I referred to if I were presenting stories of Martyrs.

[constance]

the butchery of the Huguenots has some gruesome & graphic tales.

Can ya lay your hands on a Foxe's book of martyrs? That'd be the thing I referred to if I were presenting stories of Martyrs.

Oh, yeah! Hugenots - almost as butchered as anabaptists. (why is it that there is no appropriate emoticon?) Any one in particular that strikes you deeply?

Constance

[reformedfan]

Umm.....the children who had their intestines chewed on?

The prego lady in the process of delivering her child, after they killed her midwife they were able to follow the mom's bloody path out to their barn's hay loft, where she delivered the baby which they tossed off there right before they threw his mom off?

The mayor who agreed to turn over a bunch of Huguenots to the Catholics if his life was spared, he turned over the victims & was still butchered, hung by his entrails over the river till he slowly eventually died?

I was reading this book a few years ago before my Catholic mom was due to visit (not on purpose!) By the time she got to my house, though I hadn't seen her for years, it was all I could do to not scream at her & berate her for the church history she denies ever took place. :D

[Jon_]

Oh, yeah! Hugenots - almost as butchered as anabaptists. (why is it that there is no appropriate emoticon?) Any one in particular that strikes you deeply?

Constance
You covered the group that first came to my mind: the Anabaptists.

I find their plight particularly appalling, especially when I consider that it was largely the Reformers who were responsible for hunting them down. And since I'm an Anabaptist by practice (paedobaptised, but credobaptised later), I sympathize with their views (credobaptism only).

Soli Deo Gloria

Jon

[constance]

Umm.....the children who had their intestines chewed on?

The prego lady in the process of delivering her child, after they killed her midwife they were able to follow the mom's bloody path out to their barn's hay loft, where she delivered the baby which they tossed off there right before they threw his mom off?

The mayor who agreed to turn over a bunch of Huguenots to the Catholics if his life was spared, he turned over the victims & was still butchered, hung by his entrails over the river till he slowly eventually died?

I was reading this book a few years ago before my Catholic mom was due to visit (not on purpose!) By the time she got to my house, though I hadn't seen her for years, it was all I could do to not scream at her & berate her for the church history she denies ever took place. :D

Reformedfan, I am in awe of you and your scary avatar. :)

Were all of these gems in the same book? I've not heard the kids getting their intestines chewed on story.

Constance

[reformedfan]

The crazed fiend that knifed them to death, ripped open their stomachs & chewed on their intestines as they were dying, so driven insane by killing was he.

Yeah, that's a teeny tiny segment from Foxe's. I got the updated version, and it said that more Christians have been martyred in the last 100 years than in all the years put together.

It's a dandy study.

(& my avatar is the most terrifying force on CF)