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From: "Carol J. Markillie" <>
Subject: Inquisition and Protestants
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:39:57 -0700

Hi Tony:

Tony: Perhaps you were thinking of the Medieval Inquisition.I continued for
a long time.

In regard to the question if the Roman Catholic Inquisition was involved in
punishing the Huguenots and Walloon Calvinists,
please see:

http://www.baptistpillar.com/bd0582.htm
"One of the documents that ordered such persecutions was the inhuman "Ad
exstirpanda" issued by Pope Innocent IV in 1252. This document stated that
heretics were to be "crushed like venomous snakes." It formally approved the
use of torture. Civil authorities were ordered to bum heretics. "The
aforesaid Bull `Ad exstirpanda' remained thenceforth a fundamental document
of the Inquisition, renewed or reinforced by several popes, Alexander IV
(1254-61), Clement IV (1265-68), Nicholas IV (1288-92), Boniface VIII
(1294-1303), and others. The civil authorities, therefore, were enjoined by
the popes, under pain of excommunication to execute the legal sentences that
condemned impenitent heretics to the stake. It is to be noted that
excommunication itself was no trifle, for, if the person excommunicated did
not free himself from the excommunication within a year, he was held by the
legislation of that period to be a heretic, and incurred all the penalties
that affected heresy."

http://www.sainte-inquisition.net/gb/2paris.html
"The first inquisitors appointed by Gregory IX took up office in
Charité-sur-Loire, a major heretical centre in the 13th century. They
conducted their investigations and interrogations from Burgundy and in the
provinces in the centre and north of France: Besançon, Reims, Rouen and
Tours, in addition to which they were also assigned Flanders, Paris and the
surrounding areas, and Champagne."
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"Travelling tribunals were especially prevalent in the north of France,
which was not scene to the major cases of heresy witnessed in the Toulouse
region. The tribunals moved from town to town, ruling on the handful of
individuals denounced for their lack of religious convictions or the cases
of witchcraft that increased during the 15th and 16th centuries.The
interrogations took place in the monastery of the order to which the
inquisitor belonged (if available in the town), the town's episcopal palace,
the local church or the municipal buildings."

"It should be reiterated that the northern half of France was the area for
individual cases of heresy, whereas the southern half was confined to Cathar
and Waldensian heresy."

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/war.html
In Belgium and Holland the war was between the Catholic troops, loyal to the
Spanish King, Philip II (1527-1598) and the Protestants. Obsessed with the
idea of eliminating Protestantism in his two northern possessions, Philip,
imposed the inquisition on Belgium and Holland. The Protestants rebelled. In
Phillip's attempts to crush this rebellion two incidents stand out."
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"The French wars of religion broke out in 1562 between the Catholics and the
Calvinists, called the Huguenots. The two adversaries fought a total of
eight wars which finally ended in 1593 when the Huguenot leader, Henry of
Navarre (d.1610) publicly proclaimed his conversion to Roman Catholicism and
ascended to the French throne. "

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/16cen/huguenotwars.html
"The COUNCIL OF TRENT, which had been convoked in 1545, approached its
closure (in 1563); it had taken a hostile stand toward the Lutheran,
Calvinist and Anabaptist reformation. It implemented a policy of 'rollback';
the INQUISITION was empowered to use force in order to return the flock to
(newly defined, Tridentine) Catholic faith. The Tridentine Catholic church
sought for the cooperation of kings, of the nobility, of temporal lords."

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/inquisition.html
"The Inquisition, in the form of the Congregation of the Holy Office,
continued to operate until well into the nineteenth centuries. . "

"The Inquisition was finally suppressed in France in 1772. The final
curtain on the atrocities of the Inquisition fell in 1834 when the Spanish
Inquisition was finally abolished."
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If I had more time I would work up a reading list but will have to postpone
that until I return from a trip of several weeks.


Regards -
Carol

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