Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

libraries to be given to the flames. The churches of
Cracow, of Vilna, and other towns were pillaged.
Protestant cemeteries were violated, their
monuments and tablets destroyed, the dead
exhumed, and their remains scattered about. It was
not possible at times to carry the Protestant dead to
their graves. In June, 1578, the funeral procession
of a Protestant lady was attacked in the streets of
Cracow by the pupils of All-hallows College.
Stones were thrown, the attendants were driven
away, the body was torn from the coffin, and after
being dragged through the streets it was thrown
into the Vistula. Rarely indeed did the authorities
interfere; and when it did happen that punishment
followed these misdeeds, the infliction fell on the
wretched tools, and the guiltier instigators and
ringleaders were suffered to escape.[3]
While the Jesuits were smiting the Protestant
ministers and members with the arm of the mob,
they were bowing the knee in adulation and flattery
before the Protestant nobles and gentry. In the
saloons of the great, the same men who sowed
from their chairs the principles of sedition and
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