The world: historical and actual . Thelatter were and still are called Huguenots. He re-ceived his Protestantism from a Lutheran long before Luther, or even John Huss, therewas a very considerable Protestant church inFrance. It consisted of the inhabitants of thesmall and somewhat isolated districts on the MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW eastern slope of the Cottian Alps, called worshiped God, indifferent to the pope Solong as the evangelical faith and simplicity wereconfined to that people all went smoothly; butwhen Europe was aroused by the boom of theLutheran cannon the
The world: historical and actual . Thelatter were and still are called Huguenots. He re-ceived his Protestantism from a Lutheran long before Luther, or even John Huss, therewas a very considerable Protestant church inFrance. It consisted of the inhabitants of thesmall and somewhat isolated districts on the MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW eastern slope of the Cottian Alps, called worshiped God, indifferent to the pope Solong as the evangelical faith and simplicity wereconfined to that people all went smoothly; butwhen Europe was aroused by the boom of theLutheran cannon they were condemned as thousand were burnt or put to the sword andthe rest imprisoned or otherwise destroyed. TheVaudois were literally wiped out. That was in154(1. But in the Huguenots lived the faith andheroism of the Waldenses, as the Vaudois weresometimes called. Calvintook theprecau-tion ofgettingout ofI he coun-try be-fore heincurredthe ven-geanceofthe eccle-siasticalauthori-ties. Helived inGeneva,mainly,where he. wrote on theology, preached, and exercised the func-tions of a stern persecutor until his death (1504). Hewas determined that Geneva should be not onlyProtestant, but orthodox. His burning of Servetusfor TJnitarianisni was, on a small scale, entirely inkeeping with the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Thespirit of toleration and clemency was foreign to thethought and practice of the sixteenth century, es-j>eeially to the French of that day. At no timewas the government of France other than massacre of the Huguenots begun on St. Bar-tholomews Day, August 24,1572, was the most horri-ble slaughter of innocent men in cold blood onrecord. It was more political than religious, awoman being the prime mover in the awful woman was Catherine de Medici, the Italianmother of the weak king, Charles IX., the last but i66 OLD FRANCE AU one f the house of Yalois. He reigned from 15(50td 1574, his mother being the chief power behindthe throne.
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