1209 - The Albigensian Crusades in southern France. Roman Catholic crusaders slaughter approximately 20,000 citizens of
Beziers, France on July 22, 1209. Both Albigensian Christians and Catholics were slain. By the time the Roman Catholic armies finished their
crusade, almost the entire population of southern France (mostly Albigensian Christians) has been exterminated (reference Link 1
and Link 2).
1236 - Roman Catholic crusaders slaughter Jews in the Anjou and Poitou regions of western France in a severe wave of persecution (reference Link 1
and Link 2).
1481 - - At the direction of the Roman Catholic inquisitors, authorities torture, burn and slaughter tens, even hundreds of thousands of people during
the Spanish Inquisition (Jean Antoine Llorentine, History of the Inquistion; as cited in R.W. Thompson, The Papacy and the Civil Power (New York, 1876); as cited in Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides the Beast).
1540 - 1570 - Roman Catholic armies butcher at least 900,000 Waldensian Christians of all ages during this 30-year period (source: Halley's Bible Handbook).
1553 - 1558 - Roman Catholic Queen Mary I of England (aka bloody Mary) attempts to bring England back under the yoke of papal tyranny.
During her reign, nearly 300 men and woman are burned to death at the stake. Her victims include bishops, scholars, and other Protestant
leaders (Link).
1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. French Roman Catholic soldiers begin killing Protestants in Paris on the night of August 24, 1572.
The soldiers kill at least 10,000 Protestants during the first three days. At least 8000 more Protestants are killed as the slaughter spreads
to the countryside (Link).
1618 - 1648 - The Thirty Years War. This bloody, religious war is planned, instigated, and orchestrated by the Roman Catholic Jesuit
order and its agents in an attempt to exterminate all the Protestants in Europe. Many countries in central Europe lose up to half their
population (see Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII).
1641 - 1649 - Eight years of Jesuit-instigated Roman Catholic butchery of Irish Protestants claims the lives of hundreds of thousands of
Protestants (see Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII).
1685 - French Roman Catholic soldiers slaughter approximately 500,000 French Protestant Huguenots on the orders of Roman Catholic
King Louis 14 of France.
1941 - 1945 - The Roman Catholic Ustashi in Yugoslavia butchered Hundreds of thousands of Yugoslav citizens, Serbs, Jews and Roma. And
Hundreds of thousands were forced to convert to Catholicism. (link,
link, link)
1949 - 1953 - With the support from the Columbian government, the Roman Catholic Church had 60,000 Protestants and non-Catholics shot,
drowned and emasculated. Pope Pius XII awarded the Columbian President with one of the highest awards the church can give.
During her full reign of terror, the Papacy had caused the cruel death of at least 50 MILLION
people. The following are quotes from the few available history books concerning Papal persecutions.
"Bertrand, the Papal Legate, wrote a letter to Pope Honorius, desiring to be recalled from the croisade against the primitive witnesses
and contenders for the faith. In that authentic document, he stated, that within fifteen years, 300,000 of those crossed soldiers had become
victims to their own fanatical and blind fury. Their unrelenting and insatiable thirst for Christian and human blood spared none within the
reach of their impetuous despotism and unrestricted usurpations. On the river Garonne, a conflict occurred between the croisaders, with their
ecclesiastical leaders, the Prelates of Thoulouse and Comminges; who solemnly promised to all their vassals the full pardon of sin, and the
possession of heaven immediately, if they were slain in the battle. The Spanish monarch and his confederates acknowledged that they must have
lost 400,000 men, in that tremendous conflict, and immediately after it-but the Papists boasted, that including the women and children, they
had massacred more than two millions of the human family, in that solitary croisade against the southwest part of France." (Bourne, George, The
American Textbook of Popery, Griffith & Simon, Philadelphia, 1846, pp. 402-403)
"The Catholic crusade against the Albigenses in Southern France (from 1209-1229), under Popes Innocent III., Honorius III. and Gregory IX.,
was one of the bloodiest tragedies in human history ... The number of Albigenses that perished in the twenty years war is estimated at from one
to two millions." (Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XIV)
"Need I speak to you of the thirty years war in Germany, which was mainly instigated by the Jesuits, in order to deprive the Protestants
of the right of free religious worship, secured to them by the treaty of Augsburg? Or of the Irish rebellion, of the inhuman butchery of about
fifteen millions of Indians in South America, Mexico and Cuba, by the Spanish papists? In short, it is calculated by authentic historians, that
papal Rome has shed the blood of sixty-eight millions of the human race in order to establish her unfounded claims to religious dominion."
(The Glorious Reformation by S. S. SCHMUCKER, 1838 -- citing Dr. Brownlee's 'Popery an enemy to civil liberty', p. 105)
"This was the century of the last religious wars in Christendom, the Thirty Years War in Germany, fomented by the Jesuits, reducing the
people to cannibalism, and the population of Bohemia from 4,000,000 to 780,000, and of Germany from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and making Southern
Germany almost a desert." (Cushing B. Hassell, History of the Church of God, Chapter XVII)
"In one word, the church of Rome has spent immense treasures and shed, in murder, the blood of sixty eight millions and five hundred
thousand of the human race, to establish before the astonished and disgusted world, her fixed determination to annihilate every claim set up
by the human family to liberty, and the right of unbounded freedom of conscience." (W C Brownlee, Popery an enemy to civil liberty, 1836, pp. 104-105)
"There perished under pope Julian 200,000 Christians: and by the French massacre, on a moderate calculation, in 3 months, 100,000. Of
the Waldenses there perished 150,000; of the Albigenses, 150,000. There perished by the Jesuits in 30 years only 900,000. The Duke of Alva
destroyed by the common hangman alone, 36,000 persons; the amount murdered by him is set down by Grotius at 100,000! There perished by the
fire, and tortures of the Inquisition in Spain, Italy, and France 150,000 ... In the Irish massacres there perished 150,000 Protestants! To sum
up the whole, the Roman Catholic church has caused the ruin, and destruction of a million and a half of Moors in Spain; nearly two millions of
Jews South America in Europe. In Mexico, and , including the islands of Cuba and St. Domingo, fifteen millions of Indians, in 40 years, fell
victims to popery. And in Europe, and the East Indies, and in America, 50 millions of Protestants, at least, have been murdered by it! Thus the
church of Rome stands before the world, 'the woman in scarlet, on the scarlet colored Beast.' A church claiming to be Christian, drenched in the
blood of sixty-eight millions, and five hundred thousand human beings!" (W. C. Brownlee, Letters in the Roman Catholic controversy, 1834,
pp. 347-348)
"Alexander Campbell, well known religions leader of the nineteenth century, stated in debate with John B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati,
in 1837 that the records of historians and martyrologists show that it may be reasonable to estimate that from fifty to sixty-eight millions of
human beings died, suffered torture, lost their possessions, or were otherwise devoured by the Roman Catholic Church during the awful years of
the Inquisition. Bishop Purcell made little effort to refute these figures." (Citing A Debate on the Roman Catholic Religion, Christian
Publishing Co., 1837, p. 327.) ... (The Shadow of Rome, by John B. Wilder; Zondervan Publishing Co., 1960, page 87)
"Let us keep a sense of proportion. The record of 'Christianity' [Roman Catholic] from the days when it first obtained the power to persecute is one of the
most ghastly in history. The total number of Manichaeans, Arians, Priscillianists, Paulicians, Bogomiles, Cathari, Waldensians, Albigensians,
witches, Lollards, Hussites, Jews and Protestants killed because of their rebellion against Rome clearly runs to many millions; and beyond these
actual executions or massacres is the enormously larger number of those who were tortured, imprisoned, or beggared. I am concerned rather with the
positive historical aspect of this. In almost every century a large part of the race has endeavored to reject the Christian religion, and, if in
those centuries there had been the same freedom as we enjoy, Roman Catholicism would, in spite of the universal ignorance, have shrunk long ago
into a sect. The religious history of Europe has never yet been written." (The Story Of Religious Controversy Chapter XXIII by Joseph McCabe (an
atheist) who lived from 1867 to 1955)
"Mede has calculated from good authorities 'that in the war with the Albigenses and Waldenses there perished of these people, in France
alone, 1,000,000.'" (Christ and Antichrist, by Samuel J. Cassels, 1846, page 257)
"Who have their dungeon cells under their cathedrals, in which they claim, as inquisitors of their own diocese, to imprison free men in
our republic? Foreign popish bishops! And the facts respecting a man being so confined and scourged, in the cells at Baltimore [AMERICA], until he
recanted, have been published, and not to this day contradicted! ... Who are in the habit of uttering ferocious threats to assassinate and
burn up those Protestants who successfully oppose Romanism? The foreign papists! I have in my possession the evidence of no less than six
such inhuman threatenings against myself." (W. C. Brownlee, Popery the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty, J. S. Taylor, New York, 1836, p.210-211)
"It is reckoned that during the reign of Justinian, Africa lost five millions of inhabitants; thus Arianism was extinguished in that
region, not by any enforcement of conformity, but by the extermination of the race which had introduced and professed it. - History of the
Christian Church, J.C. Robertson, Vol. 1, p. 521." (Bunch, Taylor, The Book of Daniel, p. 101)
[footnote, speaking of Pope Innocent VIII] "Yet on the papal throne he played the zealot against the Germans, whom he accused of magic, in his
bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, etc., and also against the Hussites, whom he well nigh exterminated." (Williams, Henry Smith, The
Historian's History of the World, vol. 8, p. 643)
"The inquisitor Reinerius, who died in 1259, has left it on record: 'Concerning the sects of ancient heretics, observe, that there have
been more than seventy: all of which, except the sects of the Manichaeans and the Arians and the Runcarians and the Leonists which have infected
Germany, have through the favour of God, been destroyed." (Broadbent, E.H., The Pilgrim Church, Gospel Folio Press, 2002, p. 90 (originally published in 1931)
"An edict was issued under the regency of Theodora, which decreed that the Paulicians should be exterminated by fire and sword, or
brought back to the Greek church ... It is affirmed by civil and ecclesiastical historians, that, in a short reign, one hundred thousand
Paulicians were put to death." (Andrew Miller, Short Papers on Church, London, Chapter 16)
"The whole number of victims who have been offered up in Europe since the beginning of the Reformation? Partly by war, partly by the
Inquisition, and a thousand other methods of Romish cruelty? No less within forty years, if the computation of an eminent writer be just,
than five and forty millions!" (John Wesley, 'Doctrine of Original Sin', Part I, section II.8, 1757, Wesley's Works, edited by Thomas Jackson,
vol. 9, pp. 217-19)
"The inquisition, which was established in the twelfth century against the Waldenses ... was now more effectually set to work.
Terrible persecutions were carried on in various parts of Germany, and even in Bohemia, which continued about thirty years, and the blood of
the saints was said to flow like rivers of water. The countries of Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary, were in a similar manner deluged with
Protestant blood." (Buck, Charles, A Theological Dictionary, containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; ..., Philadelphia,
Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1838, article 'Persecution')
"Those who were not put to death suffered imprisonment, had their houses pulled down, their lands laid waste, their property stolen, and
their wives and daughters, after being ravished, sent into convents ... If any fled from these cruelties, they were pursued through the woods,
hunted and shot like wild beasts...At the head of the dragoons, in all the provinces of France, marched the bishops, priests, friars, &c. the
clergy being ordered to keep up the cruel spirit of the military. An order was published for demolishing all protestant churches."
(Southwell, Henry, The new book of martyrs; or complete Christian martyrology. Containing an authentic and genuine historical account of the
many dreadful persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all parts of the world, ... Imprint London : printed for J. Cooke, [1765?] page 108-109)
"In Bohemia, by 1600, in a population of 4,000,000, 80 per cent were Protestant. When the Hapsburgs and Jesuits had done their
work, 800,000 were left, all Catholics ... In Austria and Hungary half the population Protestant, but under the Hapsburgs and
Jesuits they were slaughtered ... In Poland, by the end of the 16th century, it seemed as if Romanism was about to be entirely
swept away, but here too, the Jesuits, by persecution, killed Reform. In Italy, the Pope's own country, the Reformation was getting
a real hold; but the Inquisition got busy, and hardly a trace of Protestantism was left." (Halley's Bible Handbook, p.798)
"The Horrors of the Inquisition, ordered and maintained by the Popes, over a period of 500 years, in which unnumbered millions were
Tortured and Burned, constitute the MOST BRUTAL, BEASTLY, and DEVILISH PICTURE in all history." (Halley's Bible Handbook, p.732)
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Friends, please open your eyes to this antichrist church. This is not God's church whatsoever. It is an apostate church and history PROVES her status
as the main Bible 'antichrist' system. The pope thinks he sits IN PLACE OF Christ, acting as if he is God, which is what antichrist actually
means in the original language. Someone who puts himself IN PLACE OF Christ. And the doctrines of this church are an abomination to our Holy Heavenly Father. Heed the call today! COME OUT
OF HER MY PEOPLE! (Revelation 18:4).