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Title: The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time : with full chronological table, analytical and alphabetical indexes and glossary. Illustrated by numerous accurate and highly finished engravings of its ceremonies, superstitions, persecutions, and historical incidents
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Dowling, John, 1807-1878
Subjects: Catholic Church
Publisher: New York : E. Walker
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in the manner of their death thatappears inhuman or cruel.f (See Engraving.) It was not uncommon for the popish kings and queens of Spainto witness these wholesale burnings of heretics from a magnificentstage and canopy erected for the purpose, and it was representedby the Jesuit priests as an act highly meritorious in the king to sup-ply a faggot for the pile upon which the heretics were to be con-sumed. Among other instances of this kind, king Charles II., in anauto da fe, supplied a faggot, the sticks of which were gilded,adorned by flowers, and tied up with ribands, and was honored bybeing the first faggot placed upon the pile of burning. In 1559, kingPhilip, the popish husband of bloody queen Mary of England, waswitnessing one of these cruel scenes, when a protestant noblemannamed Don Carlos de Seso, while he was being conducted to the * Geddes tracts on Popery. View of the court of Inquisition in Portugal,p. 446. Limborch, vol. ii., p. 289.t Cited in Limborch, vol. ii., p. 301.
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chap, iv.) POPERY DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF SAINTS. 579 The Waldenscs. Their increase, in spite of persecution. Cruel outrage in the valley of Pragela. stake, called out to the King for mercy in these words : And canstthou, oh king, witness the torments of thy subjects ? Save us fromthis cruel death ; we do not deserve it. No, replied the iron-hearted bigoted monarch, I would myself carry wood to burn myown son, were he such a wretch as thou. Thus is it that popishbigotry can stifle the strongest and tenderest instincts of our nature,turn human beings into monsters, and inspire joy and delight at wit-nessing the writhing agonies and hearing the piercing shrieks ofeven tender and delicate women, as their living bodies are beingroasted amidst the fires of the auto daft. CHAPTER IV. INHUMAN PERSECUTIONS OF THE WALDENSES. § 23.—We have already given an account of the popish crusadeagainst the Waldenses of the south of France, and the horrible cru-elties and massacres inflicted on them by

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