Vatican Assassins

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The Cardinal of Lorraine, 1572 #25
Receiving the Head of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny
The Huguenots had been victorious in three Civil Wars against their
Monarch of France, Charles IX, governed by his Queen mother, Catherine
de Medici. They had obtained religious liberty with the Peace of St.
Germain and Coligny sought to aid the Low Countries in their Calvinist
revolt against Spain. Under the eye of the Black Pope, a trap was set luring
all of the Protestants to a royal wedding in Paris. After the party, early in
the morning, with white crosses on their hats, the assassins first murdered
the great Admiral Coligny in his bedroom. After the savage and ghoulish
massacre of 75,000 Protestant Huguenots, the Medicis sent his head as a
trophy to the Jesuit-trained Cardinal of Lorraine pictured above.
Ridpath’s Universal History, John Clark Ridpath, (New York: Merrill & Baker,
1901) Vol. XIII, p. 255.
The Jesuits – 1572