THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 



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l,ord Clarendon, may be pronounced the foulest and the bloodiest of 

 ancient or modern times. The black deed has handed down the names 

 of Catherine de Medicis and her son, Charles IX., to the universal de- 

 testation of after ages. 



"Charles, by a public edict, proclaimed himself "the author of it, pre- 

 tending that he was forced to the measure by the Admiral Coligny and 

 his friends. In honor of it, high mass was performed by the pope; sal- 

 voes of artillery thundered from the ramparts of St. Angelo ; a Te Dei:m 

 was sung to celebrate the atrocious event, and a medal was struck for 

 the same purpose. If every Protestant account of this terrible trans- 



Fac-similie of Papal Medal in honor of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. 

 Hindly furnished by Mr. Edward Walker, publisher of "Dowling's History of Romanism. 



action must encounter suspicion, we ourselves will be satisfied with the 

 testimony of this medal alone of Gregory XIII., at that time the Pope ; 

 — evidence that scatters to the winds of heaven all the excuses and at- 

 tempted apologies for those who perpetrated the St. Bartholomew Mas- 

 sacre. The medal has, as usual, on the obverse a head of the Pope, Gre- 

 gorius XIII. Pont. Max. An. I. The reverse exhibits a destroying angel," 

 with a cross in one hand and a sword in the other, pursuing and slaying 

 a flying and prostrate band of heretics. Strange work for an angel !* 

 The legend is: — ' Hugonottorum Strages,' — ('Slaughter of the Hugu- 

 enots.') 1572/ 



The city of La Rochelle in France, which had always stood firmly at- 



a Sketch of the Huguenots, by Mr. G. P. Disosway. Sae Christian Intelligencer. 



b There was an original medal in the possession of the late Rev. S. Farmer Jarvis, D.D., 

 LL.D., of Middletown, Conn., who obtained it at the mint in Rome. Electrotype copies of 

 this medal are very numerous; "and yet we are told that the Papal Church is not answer- 

 able for its acts and deeds; but only for such words as it thinks proper at this time to ac- 

 knowledge? That it is not answerable for the Crusade which it proclaimed against the Al- 

 bigenses? For the Marian Persecution? For the tragedy of St. Bartholomew's Day? For 

 the Inquisition? For the sufferings of the Vandois? For the Irish Massacre ? and for the 

 Draggonnades of Louis XIV. ? Sir, it is to history that I look for what the papal religion has 

 manifested itself to be. I lind its character in its actions. " A good tree cannot bring forth 

 evil fruit, neither can a corrupt true bring forth good fruit. Wherefore, by their fruits ye 

 shall judge them."— Vind. Eccles. Anglicanas, by Robert Southley, Esq., LL.D., London. 

 John Murray, 1826. 



