Protestantism in Hungary and Transylvania - James Aitken Wylie

Hardly had the scaffolds of the magnates been
taken down when the storm burst afresh (1671)
upon the Protestants of Hungary. The Archbishop
of Gran -- the ecclesiastic with the barbarous name
Szeleptsenyi -- accompanied by other bishops, and
attended by a large following of Jesuits and
dragoons, passed, like a desolating tempest, over
the land, seizing churches and schools, breaking
open their doors, re-consecrating them, painting
red crosses upon their pillars, installing the priests
in the manses and livings, banishing pastors and
teachers, and if the least opposition was offered to
these tyrannical proceedings, those from whom it
came were east into prison, and sometimes hanged
or impaled alive.
Cities and counties which the activity of
Archbishop Szeleptsenyi, vast as it was, failed to
overtake, were visited by other bishops, attended
by a body of wild Croats. Colleges were
dismantled, and the students dispersed: in the royal
cities all Protestant councilors were deposed, and
Papists appointed in their room; the citizens were
disarmed, the walls of towns leveled, the pastors
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