St. bartholomew's day of massacre

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Around 400 years ago the beginning of another terrifying holocaust began. The St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre was to end a new protestant group called the Huguenots. The massacre began on August 23rd, 1572 two days after the attempted assassination of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, who was the military and political leader of the Huguenots.

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The actual massacre was ordered by the king to murder a group of Huguenot leaders throughout Paris. There estimated deaths are between 2000 according to roman catholic apologists and 70000 according to a contemporary jugenot namred duc de Sully who barely escaped death .

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The first picture was a picture that was printed of the assasination of Coligny on the left and the massacre to the right The second picture is of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the leader of the Huguenots and a painting by John Everett Millais of two hugue not lovers on the day of massacre

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The massacre marked a turning point in the French wars of religion. Because of this massacre it "printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous religion".

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The third picture was a painting by a Huguenot painter named François Dubois. The fourth picture is a painting by Édouard Debat-Ponsan The final picture is of The Siege of La Rochelle which began soon after the St. Bartholomew massacre.