Protestantism in France From Death of Francis I to Edict of Nantes - James Aitken Wylie

een proud to celebrate. The news was thundered
forth to the inhabitants of the Seven-hilled City by
the cannon of St. Angelo, and at night bonfires
blazed on the street. Before this great day, Pius V,
as we have already seen, slept with the Popes of
former times, and his ashes, consigned to the vaults
of St. Peter's, waited the more gorgeous tomb that
was preparing for them in Santa Maria Maggiore;
but Gregory XIII conducted the rejoicings with
even greater splendor than the austere Pius would
probably have done. Through the streets of the
Eternal City swept, in the full blaze of Pontifical
pomp, Gregory and his attendant train of cardinals,
bishops, and monks, to the Church of St. Mark,
there to offer up prayers and thanksgivings to the
God of heaven for this great blessing to the See of
Rome and the Roman Catholic Church. Over the
portico of the church was hung a cloth of purple,
on which was a Latin inscription most elegantly
embroidered in letters of gold, in which it was
distinctly stated that the massacre had occurred
after "counsels had been given."[17]
On the following day the Pontiff went in
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