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"In those days, Pope Leo said to the clergy: 'When Jesus the Son of Man shall come to the seat of our Majesty, say first of all, 'Friend, wherefore art Thou come hither? And if He gives you naught in silver or gold, cast Him forth into outer darkness.'"
(A History of the Popes, Dr Joseph McCabe)

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"What has turned my soul against Roman abuse of power is the way in which it has tortured and burned such saints of God as Joan of Arc, hundreds of the Albigensian martyrs in France in the 12th century, the Knights Templar, John Huss [Czech Jan Hus], the Dominican Savonarola, the Dominican Giordano Bruno, [and] the Anglican bishops Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer. The Inquisition has promoted at least two wholesale massacres: [hundreds of] thousands of Protestant Waldensians in northern Italy, and thousands of Protestant Huguenots by the massacre of St. Bartholomew in France. More than 30,000 of the most cultured Protestants of France were put to the sword on the night of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572.  At the news [of this brutal, bloody massacre], the Pope had cannons fired, proclaimed a jubilee, ordered a Te Deum of thanksgiving to be sung, and struck a special medal to commemorate the glorious ‘victory’. "

Charles A. Bolton (Ex-Roman Catholic priest)

FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU THE INQUISITION!

Initially suspects were given a look at the instruments of torture, what the contemporary philosopher, Michel Foucault, called the first degree of torture.  This sight often elicited confessions of heresy.  There were six main instruments: the ordeal of water, very similar to our contemporary water boarding, the ordeal of fire (grease was usually put on the soles of the feet and fire applied to them,) the strappado- being dropped from a height while bound by the arms, causing dislocations, the wheel, with the prisoner tied to a large cartwheel and his body battered with hammers, and the rack, where a prisoner’s body would be stretched to breaking.  The stivaletto was a vicious boot type of torture that could result in permanent disablement.  That great historian of the Inquisition, Henry Charles Lea, has said that the “whole system of the Inquisition was such as to render the resort to torture inevitable.”

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