Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-05-13

thousand Scudl Il year 1or life. LIE La
boureur, a Catholic priest, says OF Colig
ny, He was one of the greatest mer
France ever produced. and venture tC
say, further. one of the most attached to
his country"
Immediately from every quarter there
arose tumult as of hell The changing
of bells, crashing doors, the musket.
shots. the rush of armed men, the
shrieks of their victims. and high Ovel
all the yells of the mob, made such an
uproar that the stoutest hearts shrank
appalled,, and the sahest seemed to have
lost their reason. Women unsexed. men
wanting nothing but the strength of the
wild beast, children without a single
charm of youth or innocence, crowded
the streets where the rising day strug-
gled with the glare of a thousand torch
eS. They smelt the odor of blood, and
thirsting to indulge their passions with
impunity, committed horrors that have
become the marvel of history.
Two hundred Huguenot gentlemen
within the walls of the Louvre were dis
armed and massacred in cold blood,
Charles looking coldly at the horrid
deed, the victims appealing in vain to his
mercy.
The massacre was commenced on
Sunday and was continued through that
and the two following days. Capilupi
says "that it was a holiday, and there
fore the people could more conveniently
find leisure to kill and plunder."
The POpe's nuncio, Salviati, says: "a
proclamation has been issued declaring
that there shall be three hours in day
during which it shall be unlawful to
rob and kill, and the order is observed
though not universally. You can see
nothing in the streets but white crosses
in the hats and caps OF every one you
meet, which has a fine effect"
How many lives were lost will never
be known. The Duke of Sully estimated
the number maSsacred in France at TO-
900: De FurOribus and Perefixe, ut 1OO,-
900.
When the news reached Rome the
exultation among the clergy knew no
bounds. The Cardinal Lorraine re-
warded the messenger with a thousand
crowns, the cannon of Saint Angelo
thundered forth a joyful salute; the
bells rang out from every steeple; bon
fires turned night into day; and Gregory
XIII. attended by the Cardinals and
other ecclesiastical dignitaries, went in
a long procession to the Church of st.
Louis, where the Cardinal of Lorraine
chanted TIE Deum. \ pompus Latin
inscription over the entrance described
Charles as an avenging angel sent from
Heaven to sweep his kingdom from
heretics A medal was struck to COM
memOrate the massacre. Gregory sent
Charles the golden rose: and four months
after he listened complacelitly to the
sermon of a French priest, who spoke of
that day $50 full of happiness and joy
when the Most Holy Father received
the Jews and went in solemn state to
render thanks to God and st. Louis.
That night the stars shone with greater
lustre, the Seine rolled her water more
proudly to cast into the sea the corpses
of those unholy men,"
Philip II. of Spain instructed his am
bassador in Paris, the Marquis of Agra
monte, to congratulate the King "for a
resolution so honorable, Christian and
valiant" and that the news was zone of
the greatest pleasures he had ever
known"
This is but a single episode in the his
tory of the Roman Catholic Church. Its
footsteps have been marked by crime,
and in this day of aggression the stories
of its bloody acts are worth repeating
as warning to civilization.-[C [Clevlahd
Leader.