Vatican Assassins

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Vatican Assassins
“It is impossible to read Elizabethan history except in the context of an
army of Jesuits, masters of deceit, treachery, treason, infiltration,
subversion, assassination, insurrection, civil war and coercion, plotting
for the good of the papacy, and the defeat of all the Pope’s foes
anywhere in the world.” {12}
J. E. C. Shepherd, 1987
Canadian Historian
The Babington Plot
The Jesuits at every turn sought to discredit Queen Elizabeth in the eyes of
her English subjects. They claimed “that guilty woman of England” had neither right
nor title to the throne because she was the daughter of Roman Catholic King Henry
VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. Claiming that Henry’s second marriage was
adultery, Elizabeth was called “the bastard Queen” by the Jesuits. To add insult to
injury, the Jesuits then moved Pope Pius V to excommunicate her with his most
infamous Papal Bull, Regnans in Excelsis (February 25, 1570). Formally condemned
by the Devil’s dynastic “Vicar of Christ,” certain Roman Catholic English lords could
be convinced that killing Elizabeth would not be murder but a virtuous act.
Therefore, the Jesuits plotted Elizabeth’s overthrow — many times. They
attempted to make Mary, Queen of Scots, the Queen of England. But the conspiracy
failed and the treacherous Mary lost her life. The conspiracy to put a Jesuitcontrolled,
Roman Catholic Monarch on England’s throne was thwarted — this time.
She was tried and beheaded on the 8 th of February 1587, by order of the Parliament.
Others would attempt the life of the Queen. William Parry, Anthony
Babington, Roberto Ridolfi, as well as Jesuits Edmund Campion and Robert
Parsons were a few of the many would-be assassins. They too all failed and paid
with their lives. The risen Son of God was protecting Elizabeth not because of her
personal purity but because of the prayers of her subjects and her benevolent policy
towards the English Reformers.
History would prove that the reign of Elizabeth was the birth of religious
liberty, the Middle Class, and thus the mighty Protestant British Empire. Of her
kingdom’s great prosperity an ex-Jesuit writes:
“The results of Protestantism were gloriously promoted and expanded
by Elizabeth – in the vast improvement of agriculture – internal trade –
and foreign commerce. Philip’s tyranny ruined the Netherlands:
Elizabeth received and tolerated the fugitives. New manufacturers, of
various kinds, energetically advanced the nation’s onward march to
The Jesuits – 1588