August 23, 1572

Monergist · Aug 20, 2004

REV 6:9-11 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

Late on this day, August 23, 1572, armed men, led by the Guises, broke into Coligny's apartment, overcame the fierce resistance of his guards and killed him. Coligny's death was the signal for a general butchery of the Huguenots. This atrocity is known to history as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre because it lasted well into that saint's day.

Huguenots were slaughtered in cold blood into the morning of the 24th in Paris and for days in outlying regions. As many as 70,000 perished.
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