The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-07-24
CONNECTS APPLETON.
AIbigenses-in Appleton.


The old Cyclop@diq (vol l. DID. 2S3. 2SD
traces the Albigenses back to the Paulicians OF
the seventh century. 1t says: 'The people of
their communities were distinguished general
ly by strict and Dlameless life, disapproval of
oaths, adherence of war and the punishment
by death, and the exercise of hospitality and
benefcence. Among them were men of
learning, rank and substance Pope limo
cent III ordered crusade to be preached
against the Albigensan heresy, sand pro-
claimed an indulgence for all those who should
take up the cross against the Provencals.''
Under the lead of Simon de Montfort "a re-
lentless war of determination commenced,
which was conducteds with the utmost fury
and marked by frightful excuses of cruelty.
The sect continued with varying fortunes till
1912, when 1T seems to have become as an
open profession, entirely extinct
The new Cyclopedta (vol. i, PIP. 253) says
that Albigenses was "the collective name of
various sects of heretics in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries, who left the Catholic
church and called themselves Catharis or
Cathari Che pure) The war against the AL
blgenses arose in consequence of the murder,
IN lzoS, OF the papal legate, Peter of CASTLE
nau." Pope Innocent chad a crusade preached
against them" War followed for twenty
years 'The Inquisition was organized in 1923
by the council of Toulouse to complete their
extermination.'
Here all the good qualities are rubbed out
from the Albigenses, and they are banned as
heretics and charged with the murder of pa
pal legate. These discoveries have been made
since the old Cyclopndia was printed. AS all
the witnesses are dead, and the literature of
that time is very scarce, (no printing presses
BILE changes to Romish supervision" and
would enquire, Who has any right to SANDER
the dead? In our earliest Sunday school books
the Waldenses and Albgenses were spoken of
as pure, supplemented Christians, who suf-
fered terrible prosecutions; but any school
books based on this Cyclopedid will set them
down as murderous heretics.
st. Bartholomew Massacre Ell Apple
ton.
The old Cyclopadia gives nearly three pages
70 this event (vol. ii, PIP. 6S4-6S7) and the new
Cyctopgdia less than two pages (vol. ii, pp. 347-
3i9l. The old begins by calling it ''a frightful
and nearly general assassination of the Hugue-
nots in Paris" 1t seems sufficiently fair to-
ward the Catholics, laying the crime chiefly
at the door of Queen Catharine de Medici
but says sit is known that the Duke of Alva
and the Cardinal Lorraine had both coun-
selled an open and general massacre of the
Protestants thro' out the kingdom on several
previous occasions. The coloring of the
story in the new Cyclop@dia is much tanner
than in the old one, and the two articles seem
to have been written by different hands In
the old Cyclop@diG it is called q "tragicaI
deed, )" 'frightful massacre" "horrid slaugh-
ter" "blackened the kings name with ever
lasting infamy, - scenes of havoc" ''horrors
and disorders" "hideous deed,' ''bloody
coup d'etdt," and ''heinous political crime
None of these graphic phrases referring to
the massacre are used in the new CyclopWdid,
and it omits also the statement that the Duke
OF Alva and the Cardinal Lorraine advised
general massacre of the Protestants in France
one OF these men being the trusted general
OF Philip III, the Most Catholic king of Spain,
and the other an exalted French dignitary of
the Roman Catholic church.
The new Cyciop@dia quotes a long passage
from Lingard, the Catholic historian of Eng