The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . Cruelties of the Popish Piedmontese soldiery to the Children forcibly taken from their parents, to he brought up as Papist- chaf. iv.] POPERY DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF SAINTS. 585 Barbarities in Piedmont. Mother with infant down the rocks. The poet Milton and Oliver Cromwell. §
The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossaryIllustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents . Cruelties of the Popish Piedmontese soldiery to the Children forcibly taken from their parents, to he brought up as Papist- chaf. iv.] POPERY DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF SAINTS. 585 Barbarities in Piedmont. Mother with infant down the rocks. The poet Milton and Oliver Cromwell. § 27.—About the middle of the following century, the barbarityand wholesale slaughter of the poor oppressed Waldenses, in thevalleys of Piedmont, by their popish persecutors, was such as toexcite a general feeling of indignation and remonstrance in all theprotestant states of Europe. The bigoted and cruel soldiery, at-tended by the still more bigoted monks, had been let loose upon theinoffensive inhabitants of the valleys. Thousands of families hadbeen compelled to abandon their homes in the very depths of win-ter, and to wander over mountains covered with ice and snow, des-titute and starving, to seek a refuge from their relentless persecu-tors ; and multitudes of them perished on the way, overwhelmedby tempests of drifted snow. Children had been torn from their
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