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The Murderous Roman Church (The Whore)
Collated by Al. DesLaurier

Murder: The illegal deliberate killing of one person by another. Killing illegally and deliberately. This article deals with the murderous Roman Catholic Church. Hundreds of Millions of innocent people died by the whore hand. The Roman Church is the extension of the Babylonian (Nimrods church) mysteries. After the apostles were murdered the Roman Empire put the real church of God on the hit list.

Stephen. Stephen death was occasioned by the faithful manner in which he preached the Gospel to the betrayers and murderers of Christ. To such a degree of madness were they excited that they cast him out of the city and stoned him to death. Following this a great persecution was raised against all that professed their belief in Christ as the Messiah. Luke immediately tells us that there was a great persecution against the church, which was at Jerusalem, and that they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. About two thousand Christians with Nicanor, one of the seven deacons, suffered martyrdom during the "persecution that arose about Stephen. 

James. The next martyr according to Luke was James the son of Zebedee the elder brother of John. It was not until ten years after the death of Stephen that his martyrdom took place. Herod Agrippa appointed governor of Judea by Rome and he raised a sharp persecution against the Christians. The account given us by an eminent primitive writer Clemens Alexandrinus, ought not to be overlooked. When James was led to the place of martyrdom, his executioner was brought to repent by the apostle's extraordinary courage. He fell down at his feet to request his pardon and professed himself a Christian and resolving that James should not receive the crown of martyrdom alone. Hence they were both beheaded at the same time. Thus did they cheerfully and resolutely receive that cup. Timon and Parmenas suffered martyrdom about the same time, one at Philippi and the other at Macedonia. These events took place in AD 44.

Philip was born at Bethsaida, in Galilee and was first called by the name of "disciple." He laboured diligently in Upper Asia and suffered martyrdom at Heliopolis in Phrygia. He was scourged and thrown into prison and afterwards crucified. A. D. 54.


Matthew whose occupation was that of a toll gatherer was born at Nazareth. He wrote his gospel in Hebrew, which was afterwards translated into Greek by James, the Less. The scene of his labours was Parthia and Ethiopia where he suffered martyrdom in AD 60.

James the Less. He was overseer of the churches of Jerusalem and was the author of the Epistle ascribed to James in the sacred canon. At the age of ninety-four he was beat and stoned by the Jews and finally had his brains dashed out.




Matthias whom less is known than most of the other disciples. He was elected to fill the vacant place of Judas. He was stoned at Jerusalem and then beheaded.

Andrew was the brother of Peter. He preached the gospel to many Asiatic nations but on his arrival at Edessa he was taken and crucified on a stake.

Mark was born of Jewish parents of the tribe of Levi. He is supposed to have been converted to Christianity by Peter and under whose inspection he wrote his Gospel in the Greek language. The people of Alexandria at the great solemnity of Serapis dragged Mark to pieces there ending his life under their merciless hands.

Peter was condemned to death and crucified. Jerome saith that he was crucified his head being down and his feet upward because he was (he said) unworthy to be crucified after the same form and manner as the Lord was.

Paul suffered also in this first persecution under Nero. The soldiers came and led him out of the city to the place of execution where after his prayers gave his neck to the sword.

Jude the brother of James was commonly called Thaddeus. He was crucified at Edessa, AD 72.

Bartholomew preached in several countries and having translated the Gospel of Matthew into the languages of India. He was at cruelly beaten and then crucified

Thomas called Didymus, preached the Gospel in Parthia and India, which excited the rage of the pagan priests. He was martyred by being thrust through with a spear.

Luke was the author of the Gospel, which goes under his name. He travelled with Paul through various countries and supposed to have been hanged on an olive tree by the idolatrous priests of Greece.

Simon surnamed Zealots, preached the Gospel in Mauritania Africa and even in Britain in which latter country he was crucified, AD 74.

John the "beloved disciple," was brother to James the Great. He founded the churches of Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis Philadelphia, Laodicea, and Thyatira. From Ephesus he was ordered to be sent to Rome, where it is affirmed he was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. He escaped by miracle, without injury. Domitian after wards banished him to the Isle of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. He was the only apostle who escaped a violent death.

Barnabas was of Cyprus but of Jewish descent. His death is supposed to have taken place about AD 73. And yet notwithstanding all these continual persecutions and horrible punishments the Church daily increased. The early Church was deeply rooted in the doctrine of the apostles and watered plenteously with the blood of saints.


The Roman Catholic Church did not exist until 325 AD. At this time the Emperor Constantine hijack the Christian church and place it on top of the Babylonian mysteries. Forced the Christian to give up the Sabbath on Saturday and replace it with Sunday, the day of the Sun. He also started the first corporate church in separating of the clergy and the Laos the people. Satin after the death of Christ worked over time to eliminate Gods church and used all his power to create a murderous whore church.

Persecution, under Nero, 67 AD. The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67 AD under Nero the sixth emperor of Rome. This monarch reigned for the space of five years with tolerable credit to him but then gave way to the greatest extravagancy of temper and most atrocious barbarities of human mankind. Among other diabolical whims he ordered that the city of Rome should be set on fire and his officers, guards and servants executed the order. While the imperial city was in flames he went up to the tower of Macaenas and played upon his harp and sung the song of the burning of Troy and openly declared that 'he wished the ruin of all things before his death.' Besides the noble pile called the Circus many other palaces and houses were consumed and several thousands perished in the flames. This dreadful conflagration continued nine days. When Nero finding that his conduct was greatly blamed and a severe odium cast upon him, he then determined to lay the whole blame upon the Christians. At once he excused himself and this gave him opportunity to think up new cruelties. This was the occasion of the first persecution and the barbarities exercised on the Christians were such as to excited Romans themselves. Nero even refined upon cruelty and contrived all manners of punishments for the Christians that the most infernal imagination could design. In particular he had some sewed up in skins of wild beasts and then worried by dogs until they expired and others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax fixed to axletrees and set on fire in his gardens in order to illuminate them. This persecution was general throughout the whole Roman Empire but it rather increased than diminished the spirit of Christianity. In the course of it Paul and Peter were martyred. To their names may be added, Erastus chamberlain of Corinth, Aristarchus, the Macedonian and Trophimus, an Ephesian, converted by Paul and fellow-labourer with him, Joseph commonly called Barsabas, and Ananias, bishop of Damascus.

Second Persecution, Under Domitian, 81 AD. The emperor Domitian who was naturally inclined to cruelty first slew his brother and then raised the second persecution against the Christians. In his rage he put to death some of the Roman senators, some through malice and others to confiscate their estates. He then commanded all the lineage of David to be put to death. Among the numerous martyrs that suffered during these persecutions was Simeon bishop of Jerusalem who was crucified and John who was boiled in oil and afterward banished to Patmos. Flavia the daughter of a Roman senator was likewise banished to Pontus and then a law was made that no Christian, once brought before the tribunal should be exempted from punishment without renouncing his religion. A variety of fabricated tales were during this reign composed in order to injure the Christians. Such was the infatuation of the pagans that if famine, pestilence or earthquakes afflicted any of the Roman provinces it was laid upon the Christians. 



These persecutions among the Christians increased the number of informers and most for the sake of gain swore away the lives of the innocent. Another hardship was that when any Christians were brought before the magistrates a test oath was proposed, if they refused to take it, death was pronounced against them and if they confessed themselves Christians the sentence was the same. The following were the most remarkable among the numerous martyrs who suffered during this persecution. Dionysius, the Areopagite was an Athenian by birth and educated in all the useful and ornamental literature of Greece. Nicodemus a benevolent Christian of some distinction suffered at Rome during the rage of Domitian’s persecution. Protasius and Gervasius were martyred at Milan. Timothy was the celebrated disciple of Paul and bishop of Ephesus where he zealously governed the Church until 97AD. At this period pagans were about to celebrate a feast call Catagogion. Timothy meeting the procession severely reproved them for their ridiculous idolatry which so exasperated the people that they fell upon him with their clubs and beat him in so dreadful manner that he expired of the bruises two days after.

Third persecution, under Trajan, 108 AD. In the third persecution Pliny the Second a man learned and famous, seeing the lamentable slaughter of Christians and moved therewith to pity, wrote to Trajan. He certified that there were many thousands of them daily put to death and of which none had done any thing contrary to the Roman laws worthy of persecution. "The whole account they gave of their crime or error (whichever it is to be called) amounted only to this, that they were accustomed on a stated day to meet before daylight and to repeat together a form of prayer to Christ as a God and to bind themselves by an obligation not indeed to commit wickedness but on the contrary never to commit theft, robbery or adultery, never to falsify their word, never to defraud any man and after which it was their custom to separate and reassemble to partake in common of a. harmless meal. In this persecution suffered the blessed martyr, lgnatius, who is held in famous reverence among very many. This Ignatius was reappointed to be bishop of Antioch. He was brought from Syria to Rome because he professed Christ and was given to the wild beasts to be devoured. It is also said of him that when he passed through Asia being under the most strict custody of his keepers he strengthened and confirmed the churches through all the cities as he went both with his exhortations and preaching of the Word of God. Accordingly having come to Smyrna, he wrote to the Church at Rome exhorting them not to use means for his deliverance from martyrdom that lest they deprive him of that which he most longed and hoped for. Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the stake, let the companies of wild beasts, let breaking of bones and tearing of limbs, let the grinding of the whole body and all the malice of the devil come upon me and be it so only may I win Christ Jesus. 








And even when he was sentenced to be thrown to the beast such was the burning desire that he had to suffer, that he spake when he heard the lions roaring saying. "I am the wheat of Christ: I am going to be ground with the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found pure bread. Trajan being succeeded by Adrian who continued this third persecution with as much severity as his predecessor. About this time Alexander bishop of Rome with his two deacons were martyred and as were Quirinus and Hernes with their families, Zenon, a Roman nobleman and about ten thousand other Christians. 

In Mount Ararat many were crucified crowned with thorns and spears run into their sides in imitation of Christ's passion. Eustachius a brave and successful Roman commander was by the emperor ordered to join in an idolatrous sacrifice to celebrate some his own victories but his faith (being a Christian in his heart) was so much greater than his vanity that he nobly refused it. Enraged at the denial the ungrateful emperor forgot the service of this skilled commander and ordered him and his whole family to be martyred. At the martyrdom of Faustines and Jovita brothers and citizens of Brescia their torments were so many. Their patience so great that Caloccerius who was a pagan was so struck with admiration and exclaimed in a kind of ecstasy stated "Great is the God of the Christians." for which he was apprehended and suffered a similar fate. Many other similar cruelties and rigours were exercised against Christians until Quadratus, bishop of Athen, made a learned apology in their favour before the emperor who happened to be there. Aristides, a philosopher wrote an elegant epistle, which caused Adrian to relax in his severities and relent in their favour. Adrian dying AD 138, was succeeded by Antoninus Pius one of the most amiable monarchs that ever reigned and who stayed the persecutions against the Christians during his reign..


Fourth persecution under Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 162 AD 

Marcus Aurelius followed about the year of our Lord 161 was a man of stern and severe nature and although he studied philosophy and civil government was no less commendably harsh toward the Christians and whom was moved to the fourth persecution. The cruelties used in this persecution were such that many of the spectators shuddered with horror at the sight and were astonished at the intrepidity of the sufferers. Some of the martyrs were obliged to pass with their already wounded feet over thorns, nails, sharp shells, etc. Others were scourged until their sinews and veins lay bare and after suffering the most excruciating tortures that could be devised they were destroyed by the most terrible deaths. Germanicus a young man but a true Christian was delivered to the wild beasts on account of his faith and he behaved with such astonishing courage that several pagans became converts to a faith which inspired such fortitude. Polycarp, the venerable bishop of Smyrna on the day that the guards apprehended him, he ask them for an hour in prayer which they allowed. He prayed with such fervency that his guards repented that they had been instrumental in taking him. He was however carried before the proconsul, condemned and burnt in the market place. 



The proconsul then urged him, saying "Swear, and I will release thee; reproach Christ." Polycarp answered, "Eighty and six years have I served him and he never once wronged me, how then shall I blaspheme my King. Who hath saved me? " At the stake to which he was only tied but not nailed he assured them he should stand immovable. The flames encircled his body like an arch without touching him and the executioner on seeing this was ordered to pierce him with a sword. So great a quantity of blood flowed out as extinguished the fire. His body at the instigation of the enemies of the Gospel especially Jews was ordered to be consumed in the pile and the request of his friends who wished to give it Christian burial was rejected. They nevertheless collected his bones and as much of his remains as possible and caused them to be decently interred. Metrodorus, a minister, who preached boldly and Pionius, who made some excellent apologies for the Christian faith were likewise burnt. Carpus and Papilus two worthy Christians and Agathonica a pious woman also suffered martyrdom. Felicitatis an illustrious Roman lady of a considerable family and the most shining virtues was a devout Christian. She had seven sons whom she had educated with the most exemplary piety. Januarius, the eldest was scourged and pressed to death with weights. Felix and Philip the two next had their brains dashed out with clubs. Silvanus the fourth was murdered by being thrown from a precipice and the three younger sons Alexander, Vitalis and Martial were beheaded. The mother was beheaded with the same sword as the three latter. Justin the celebrated philosopher fell a martyr in this persecution. He was a native of Neapolis in Samaria and was born AD 103. Justin was a great lover of truth and a universal scholar He investigated the Stoic and Peripatetic philosophy and attempted the Pythagorean but the behaviour of one of its professors disgusting him and he applied himself to the Platonic in which he took great delight. About the year 133 when he was thirty years of age he became a convert to Christianity and then for the first time perceived the real nature of truth. He wrote an elegant epistle to the Gentiles and employed his talents in convincing the Jews of the truth of the Christian rites and spending a great deal of time in travelling until he took up his abode in Rome and fixed his habitation upon the Viminal mount. 

This affair occasioned the persecution to subside for some time. Under the inspection of the emperor it soon raged in France particularly at Lyons where the tortures to which many of the Christians were put almost exceed the powers of description. The principal of these martyrs was Vetius Agathus a young man, Blandina, a Christian lady of a weak constitution and Sanctus a deacon of Vienna. Red hot plates of brass were placed upon the tenderest parts of his body. Biblias a weak woman and Attalus, of Pergamus and Pothinus the venerable bishop of Lyons who was ninety years of age. Blandina on the day when she and the three other champions were first brought into the amphitheatre, she was suspended on a piece of wood fixed in the ground and exposed as food for the wild beasts At which time by her earnest prayers she encouraged others. 







But none of the wild beasts would touch her so that she was remanded to prison. When she was again produced for the third and last time she was accompanied by Ponticus a youth of fifteen and the constancy of their faith so enraged the multitude that neither the sex of the one, nor the youth of the other, were respected. They were exposed to all manners of punishments and tortures. Being strengthened by Blandina the youth persevered unto death and she after enduring all the torments heretofore mentioned was at length slain with the sword. It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of "persecution above ground and prayer below ground." The Coliseum and the catacombs express their lives. Beneath Rome are the excavations, which we call the catacombs, which were at once temples and tombs. The early Church of might well be called the Church of the Catacombs. There are some sixty catacombs near Rome in which some six hundred miles of galleries have been traced and these are not all. These galleries are about eight feet high and from three to five feet wide containing on either side several rows of long, low, horizontal recesses, one above another like berths in a ship. In these the dead bodies were placed and the front closed either by a single marble slab or several great tiles laid in mortar. On these slabs or tiles, epitaphs or symbols are engraved or painted. Both pagans and Christians buried their dead in these catacombs. When the Christian graves have been opened the skeletons tell their own terrible tale. Heads are found severed from the body, ribs and shoulder blades are broken, bones are often calcined from fire. But despite the awful story of persecution that we may read here, the inscriptions breathe forth peace and joy and triumph.

Fifth persecution commencing with Severus 192 AD 

Severus having been recovered from a severe fit of sickness by a Christian became a great flavoured of the Christians in general but the prejudice and fury of the ignorant multitude prevailing. Obsolete laws were put in execution against the Christians. The progress of Christianity alarmed the pagans and they revived the stale calumny of placing accidental misfortunes to the account of its professors AD 192. But, though persecuting malice raged yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness and, firm as an impregnable rock withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success. Tertullian who lived in this age informs us, that if a Christians had collectively withdrawn themselves from the Roman territories, the empire would have been greatly depopulated. Victor bishop of Rome suffered martyrdom in the first year of the third century AD 201. Leonidus, the father of the celebrated Origen was beheaded for being a Christian. Many of Origen's hearers likewise suffered martyrdom and particularly two brothers named Plutarchus and Serenus and anothers like Serenus, Heron, and Heraclides, were beheaded. Rhais had boiled pitch poured upon her head and was then burnt, as was Marcella her mother. 







Potainiena the sister of Rhais was executed in the same manner as Rhais had been but Basilides an officer belonging to the army and who was ordered to attend her execution became convert. Basilides being as an officer required taking a certain oath which he refused saying, that he could not swear by the Roman idols, as he was a Christian. Struck with surprise the people could not at first believe what they heard but he had no sooner confirmed the same than he was dragged before the judge and committed to prison and speedily afterward beheaded. 

Irenus bishop of Lyons was born in Greece and received both a polite and a Christian education. It is generally supposed that himself wrote the account of the persecutions at Lyons. He succeeded the martyr Pothinus as bishop of Lyons and ruled his diocese with great propriety. He was a zealous opposser of heresies in general, and, about AD 187 he wrote a celebrated tract against heresy. Victor the bishop of Rome wanting to impose the keeping of Easter which changed the dates and names of our Lords real crucifixion and Gods feast. This was a pagan feast, which bought the pagan goddess Ester into Christianity and parallelled the days with Christian feast. It was a way for Satan through mans vanity to change laws and times of the Lord. This was one of the starting points for the whore Church, the Romans Church, which want to rule without God. It started a disorders among the Christians. In particular Irenus who wrote the bishop of Rome a synodical epistle, in the name of the Gallic churches. This zeal in favour of Christianity pointed him out as an object of resentment to the emperor and in AD 202, he was beheaded. “ And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time” Daniel 7:25 The persecutions now extending to Africa many were martyred in that quarter of the globe. Perpetua a married lady of about twenty-two years. Those who suffered with her were Felicitas a married lady big with child The names of the other prisoners destined to suffer upon this occasion were Saturninus, Secundulus and Satur. 

On the day appointed for their execution they were led to the amphitheatre. Satur, Saturninus and Revocatus were ordered to run the gauntlet between the hunters or such as had the care of the wild beasts. The hunters being drawn up in two ranks, they ran between and were severely lashed as they passed. Felicitas and Perpetua were stripped in order to be thrown to a mad bull, which made his first attack upon Perpetua and stunned her. He then darted at Felicitas and gored her dreadfully but not killing them. The executioner killed them with a sword. Wild beasts destroyed Revocatus and Satur. Saturninus was beheaded and Secundulus died in prison. These executions were in the year 205 on the eighth day of March. Speratus and twelve others were likewise beheaded as was Andocles in France. 







Asclepiades bishop of Antioch also suffered many tortures but his life was spared. Cecilia a young lady of good family in Rome was married to a gentleman named Valerian. She converted her husband and brother who were beheaded and the maximus or officer who led them to execution becoming convert suffered the same fate. The lady was placed naked in a scalding bath and having continued there a considerable time her head was struck off with a sword, AD 222. Calistus, bishop of Rome was martyred AD 224 but the manner of his death is not recorded and Urban bishop of Rome met the same fate AD 232.


Sixth persecution under Maximus 235 AD 

235 AD was in the time of Maximinus. In Cappadocia, the president Seremianus did all he could to exterminate the Christians from that province. The principal persons who perished under this reign were Pontianus bishop of Rome, Anteros a Grecian, his successor who gave offence to the government by collecting the acts of the martyrs. Pammachius and Quiritus a Roman senators with all their families and many other Christians. Simpliciu a senator. Calepodius a Christian minister thrown into the Tyber. Martina a noble and beautiful virgin and Hippolitus a Christian prelate tied to a wild horse and dragged until he expired. During this persecution raised by Maximinus, numberless Christians were slain without trial and buried indiscriminately in heaps and sometimes fifty or sixty being cast into a pit together without the least decency. The tyrant Maximinus dying, AD 238 was succeeded by Gordian. During his reign and that of his successor Philip the Church was free from persecution for the space of more than ten years. In AD 249 a violent persecution broke out in Alexandria towards the Christians and at the instigation of a pagan priest without the knowledge of the emperor.


Seventh Persecution Under Decius 249 AD 

This was occasioned partly by the hatred he bore to his predecessor Philip who was deemed a Christian and was partly by his jealousy concerning the amazing increase of Christianity. His heathen temples began to disappear and the Christian churches were multiplying. For this reasons Decius attempt the very extermination of all Christianity from within. It was very unfortunate for the true Gospel that many errors crept into the Church, the other Gospel. The Christians were at variance with each other, self-interest divided those whom, social love ought to have united and the sin of “ pride “ occasioned a variety of factions within the true church which started with their own doctrines. The heathens in general were ambitious to enforce the imperial decrees upon this occasion and looked upon the murder of a Christian as a merit to themselves. The martyrs upon this occasion were innumerable but the principal we shall give some account of. Fabian the bishop of Rome was the first person of eminence who felt the severity of this persecution. 





The deceased emperor Phillip had on account of his integrity committed his treasure to the care of this good man. But Decius not finding as much as he expected, determined to wreak his vengeance on the good prelate. He was accordingly seized and on January 20, AD 250 he suffered decapitation. Julian a native of Cilicia was seized upon for being a Christian. He was put into a leather bag together with a number of serpents and scorpions and in that condition thrown into the sea. Peter a young man amiable for the superior qualities of his body and mind was beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to Venus. He said, I am astonished you should sacrifice to an infamous woman whose debaucheries even your own historians record and whose life consisted of such actions as your laws would punish. No, I shall offer the true God the acceptable sacrifice of praises and prayers. Optimus the proconsul of Asia on hearing this ordered the prisoner be stretched upon a wheel by which all his bones were broken and then he was sent to be beheaded. Nichomachus being brought before the proconsul as a Christian was ordered to sacrifice to the pagan idols. 

Nichomachus replied, I can not pay that respect to devils which is only due to the Almighty. This speech so much enraged the proconsul that Nichomachus was put to the rack. After enduring the torments for a time he recanted but scarcely had he given this proof of his frailty than he fell into the greatest agonies, dropped down on the ground and expired immediately. Denisa, a young woman of only sixteen years of age who beheld this terrible judgement suddenly exclaimed O unhappy wretch why would you buy a moment’s ease at the expense of a miserable eternity! Optimus hearing this called to her and Denisa avowing herself to be a Christian she was beheaded by his order soon after. Andrew and Paul two companions of Nichomachus the martyr AD 251 suffered martyrdom by stoning and expired calling on their blessed Redeemer. Alexander and Epimachus of Alexandria were apprehended for being Christians and confessing the accusation were beat with staves, torn with hooks and at length burnt in the fire and we are informed, in a fragment preserved by Eusebius that four female martyrs suffered on the same day and at the same place but not in the same manner for these were beheaded. Lucian and Marcian two wicked pagans, though skilful magicians, becoming converts to Christianity to make amends for their former errors lived the lives of hermit and subsisted upon bread and water only. After some time spent in this manner they became zealous preachers and made many converts. The persecution however raging at this time, they were seized upon, and carried before Sabinus, the governor of Bithynia. On being asked by what authority they took upon themselves to preach, Lucian answered, That the laws of charity and humanity obliged all men to endeavour the conversion of their neighbours and to do everything in their power to rescue them from the snares of the devil. Lucian having answered in this manner, Marcian said, Their conversion was by the same grace, which was given to Paul, who from a zealous persecutor of the Church became a preacher of the Gospel. The proconsul finding that he could not prevail with them to renounce their faith condemned them to be burnt alive and the sentence was soon after executed.




Trypho and Respicius two eminent men were seized as Christians and imprisoned at Nice. Their feet were pierced with nails, they were dragged through the streets, scourged, torn with iron hooks, scorched with lighted torches, and at length beheaded. February 1, AD 251. Agatha, a Sicilian lady was not more remarkable for her personal and acquired endowments than her piety, her beauty was such, that Quintian, governor of Sicily, became enamoured of her and made many attempts upon her chastity without success. In order to gratify his passions with the greater conveniency, he put the virtuous lady into the hands of Aphrodica, a very infamous and licentious woman. This wretch tried every artifice to win her to the desired prostitution but found all her efforts were vain for her chastity was impregnable and she well knew that virtue alone could procure true happiness. Aphrodica acquainted Quintian with the inefficacy of her endeavours, who changed his lust into resentment. On her confessing that she was a Christian he determined to gratify his revenge, as he could not his passion. Pursuant to his orders she was scourged, burnt with red-hot iron and torn with sharp hooks. Having borne these torments with admirable fortitude, she was next laid naked upon live coals, intermingled with glass, and then being carried back to prison, she there expired on February 5, 251. Cyril bishop of Gortyna was seized by order of Lucius the governor of that place, who nevertheless, exhorted him to obey the imperial mandate, perform the sacrifices and save have venerable person from destruction, for he was now eighty-four years of age. The good prelate replied that as he had long taught others to be saved, he should only think now of his owns salvation. The worthy prelate heard his fiery sentence without emotion, walked cheerfully to the place of execution and underwent his martyrdom with great fortitude. 

The persecution raged in no place more than the Island of Crete, for the governor, being exceedingly active in executing the imperial decrees, that place streamed with pious blood. Babylas, a Christian of a liberal education became bishop of Antioch in AD 237, on the demise of Zebinus. He acted with inimitable zeal and governed the Church with admirable prudence during the most tempestuous times. The first misfortune that happened to Antioch during his mission was the siege of it by Sapor king of Persia, who, having overrun all Syria, took and plundered this city among others and used the Christian inhabitants with greater severity than the rest but was soon totally defeated by Gordian. After Gordian's death in the reign of Decius, that emperor came to Antioch, where having a desire to visit an assembly of Christians and where Babylas opposed him and absolutely refused to let him come in. The emperor dissembled his anger at that time but soon sending for the bishop he sharply reproved him for his insolence and then ordered him to sacrifice to the pagan deities as an expiation for his offence. This being refused, he was committed to prison, loaded with chains, treated with great severities and then beheaded, together with three young men who had been his pupils AD 25. 







Alexander bishop of Jerusalem was cast into prison on account of his religion, where he died through the severity of his confinement. Julianus, an old man, lame with the gout and Cronion, another Christian were bound on the backs of camels, severely scourged, and then thrown into a fire and consumed. Also forty virgins at Antioch, after being imprisoned, and scourged, were burnt. In the year of our Lord 251 the emperor Decius having erected a pagan temple at Ephesus and then he commanded all who were in the city to sacrifice to the idols. This order was nobly refused by several of his own soldiers, Maximianus, Martianus, Joannes, Malchus, Dionysius, Seraion and Constantinus. The emperor wishing to win these soldiers to renounce their faith by his entreaties and lenity gave them a considerable respite until he returned from an expedition. During the emperor’s absence they escaped and hid themselves in a cavern which the emperor being informed of at his return He then closed up the mouth of all the caves and they all perished with hunger. Theodora a beautiful young lady of Antioch refusing to sacrifice to the Roman idols was condemned to the stews that her virtue might be sacrificed to the brutality of lust. Didymus a Christian disguised himself in the habit of a Roman soldier went to the house, informed Theodora who he was and advised her to make her escape in his clothes. This being effected and a man found in the brothel instead of a beautiful lady, Didymus was taken before the president to whom confessing the truth and owning that he was a Christian the sentence of death was immediately pronounced against him. Theodora hearing that her deliverer was likely to suffer came to the judge and threw herself at his feet and begged that the sentence might fall on her as the guilty person but deaf to the cries of the innocent and insensible to the calls of justice, the inflexible judge condemned both when they were executed accordingly, being first beheaded and their bodies afterward burnt. Secundianus having been accused as a Christian was conveyed to prison by some soldiers. On the way, Verianus and Marcellinus said, "Where are you carrying the innocent?" This interrogatory occasioned them to be seized and all three, after having been tortured, were hanged and decapitated. Origen, the celebrated presbyter and catechist of Alexandria, at the age of sixty-four, was seized and thrown into a loathsome prison, his feet placed in the stocks and his legs extended to the utmost for several successive days. He was threatened with fire and tormented by every lingering means the most infernal imaginations could suggest. During this cruel temporising, the emperor Decius died, and Gallus who succeeded him, engaging in war with the Goths, the Christians met with a respite. In this interim, Origen obtained his enlargement and retiring to Tyre and remained until his death, which happened when he was in the sixty-ninth year of his age. Gallus the emperor having just concluded with his wars was faced with a plague in the empire He ordered sacrifices to the pagan deities and because of this event persecutions spread from the interior to the extreme parts of the empire and many martyrs fell 








Among these were Cornelius the Christian bishop of Rome and Lucius his successor, in 253. Most of the errors, which crept into the Church at this time, arose from placing human reason in competition with revelation. The separation from the Gospel was becoming common place in Roman Christianity. The other Gospel was slowly being put in place by Satan’s ministers who where being deceived by the father of lies himself. The transition to the other gospel became extremely simple for Satan due to the fact that the foundation had already been but in place by Nimrod and the Babylonian Mysteries and had spread all around the pagan world. 

Eighth persecution under Valerian 257 AD 

Began under Valerian in the month of April 257 and continued for three years and six months. The martyrs that fell in this persecution were innumerable and their tortures and deaths as various and painful. The most eminent martyrs were the following though neither ranks, sex, nor ages were regarded. Rufina and Secunda were two beautiful and accomplished ladies, daughters of Asterius a gentleman of eminence in Rome. Rufina the elder was designed in marriage for Armentarius a young noble man, Secunda the younger, for Verinus, a person of rank and opulence. The suitors at the time of the persecution's commencing were both Christians but when danger appeared they renounced their faith. They took great pains to persuade the ladies to do the same but disappointed in their purpose the lovers were base enough to inform against the ladies who being apprehended as Christians were brought before Junius Donatus governor of Rome AD 257, They sealed their martyrdom with their blood. Stephen, bishop of Rome was beheaded in the same year and about that time Saturninus the pious orthodox bishop of Toulouse refusing to sacrifice to idols he was treated with all the barbarous indignities imaginable and fastened by the feet to the tail of a bull. Upon a signal given the enraged animal was driven down the steps of the temple by which the worthy martyr's brains were dashed out. Sextus succeeded Stephen as bishop of Rome. He is supposed to have been a Greek by birth or by extraction and had for some time served in the capacity of a deacon under Stephen. His great fidelity, singular wisdom and uncommon courage distinguished him upon many occasions and the happy conclusion of a controversy with some heretics is generally ascribed to his piety and prudence. In the year 258 Marcianus, who had the management of the Roman government procured an order from the emperor Valerian to put to death all the Christian clergy in Rome and hence the bishop with six of his deacons suffered martyrdom in 258. In Africa the persecution raged with peculiar violence, many thousands received the crown of martyrdom, among which the following were the most distinguished characters. 









Cyprian, bishop of Carthage an eminent prelate and a pious ornament of the Church. The brightness of his genius was tempered by the solidity of his judgement and with all the accomplishments of the gentleman he blended the virtues of a Christian. His doctrines were orthodox and pure. His language easy and elegant and his manners graceful and winning, he was both the pious and polite preacher. In his youth he was educated in the principles of Gentilism and having a considerable fortune he lived in the very extravagance of splendour and all the dignity of pomp. About the year 246, C£cilius a Christian minister of Carthage became the happy instrument of Cyprian's conversion. 

Previous to his baptism he studied the Scriptures with care and being struck with the beauties of the truths they contained he determined to practise the virtues therein recommended. Subsequent to his baptism. He sold his estate, distributed the money among the poor dressed himself in plain attire and commenced a life of austerity. He was soon after made a presbyter and being greatly admired for his virtues and works and on the death of Donatus, in AD 248 he was almost unanimously elected bishop of Carthage. In AD 250, the emperor Decius publicly proscribed Cyprian. Cyprian bishop of the Christians. The universal cry of the pagans became "Cyprian to the lions, Cyprian to the beasts." The bishop however withdrew from the rage of the populace and his effects were immediately confiscated. During his retirement he wrote thirty pious and elegant letters to his flock. By then several schisms had crept into the Church which gave him great uneasiness. The rigour of the persecution abating he returned to Carthage and did everything in his power to expunge erroneous opinions. A terrible plague breaking out in Carthage was laid to the charge of the Christians and the magistrates began to persecute accordingly which occasioned an epistle from them to Cyprian . His answer to which he vindicates the cause of Christianity. AD 257. Cyprian was brought before the proconsul Aspasius Paturnus who exiled him to a little city on the Lybian Sea. On the death of this proconsul he returned to Carthage but was soon after seized and carried before the new governor who condemned him to be beheaded. He was executed on the fourteenth of September, AD 258. 

The disciples of Cyprian who were also martyred in this persecution were Lucius, Flavian, Victoricus, Remus, Montanus, Julian, Primelus and Donatian. At Utica a terrible tragedy was exhibited. Three hundred Christians were by the orders of the proconsul were placed round a burning limekiln. A pan of coals and incense being prepared they were commanded either to sacrifice to Jupiter or to be thrown into the kiln. Unanimously refusing they bravely jumped into the pit and was immediately suffocated. Fructuasus bishop of Tarragon, in Spain and his two deacons Augurius and Eulogius were burnt for being Christians. Alexander, Malchus, and Priscus, three Christians of Palestine with a woman of the same place voluntarily accused themselves of being Christians and on which account they were sentenced to be devoured by tigers and their sentence was executed accordingly. Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda, three virgins of Tuburga, had gall and vinegar given them to drink and then they were severely scourged tormented on a gibbet, rubbed with lime, scorched on a gridiron, worried by wild beasts, and at length beheaded. 



It is here proper to take notice of the singular but miserable fate of the emperor Valerian who had so long and so terribly persecuted the Christians. This tyrant was taken prisoner by Sapor emperor of Persia and who carried him into his own country and there treated him with the most unexampled indignity. Making him kneel down as the meanest slave and treading upon him as a footstool when he mounted his horse. After having kept him for the space of seven years in this abject state of slavery he caused his eyes to be put out This not satiating his desire of revenge he soon after ordered his body to be flayed alive and rubbed with salt under which torment he expired and thus fell one of the most tyrannical emperors of Rome and one of the greatest persecutors of the Christians .AD 260. Gallienus the son of Valerian succeeded him and during his reign (a few martyrs excepted) the Church enjoyed peace for some years.

Ninth Persecution Under Aurelian 274 AD 

The principal sufferers were Felix the bishop of Rome. This prelate was advanced to the Roman Church in 274. He was the first martyr to Aurelian’s petulancy, being beheaded on the twenty-second of December, in the same year. Agapetus a young gentleman who sold his estate and gave the money to the poor was seized as a Christian and tortured and then beheaded at Praeneste. These are the only martyrs left upon record during this reign and it was soon put to a stop by the emperor being murdered by his own domestics. Aurelian was succeeded by Tacitus who was followed by Probes, Carnious and Numerian, succeeded him and during all these reigns the Church had peace. Diocletian mounted the imperial throne in AD 284. At first he showed great favour to the Christians. In the year 286, he associated Maximian with him in the empire and some Christians were put to death before any general persecution broke out. Among these were Felician and Primus, two brothers. Marcus and Marcellianus were twins and natives of Rome and of noble descent. Their parents were heathens but the tutors of the children brought them up as Christians. Their constancy at length subdued those who wished them to become pagans and their parents and whole family became converts to a faith they had before reprobated. They were martyred by being tied to posts and having their feet pierced with nails. After remaining in this situation for a day and a night they were put an end to by thrusting lances through their bodies. Zoe, the wife of the jailer was also converted by them and hung upon a tree with a fire of straw lighted under her. When her body was taken down it was thrown into a river with a large stone tied to it in order to sink it. In the year of Christ 286 a most remarkable thing occurred. A legion of soldiers consisting of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men was all Christians. This legion was called the Theban Legion because the men had been raised in Thebias. They were quartered in the east until the emperor Maximian ordered them to march to Gaul to assist him against the rebels of Burgundy. They passed the Alps into Gaul under the command of Mauritius, Candidus and Exupernis their worthy commanders and at length joined the emperor. 





Maximian ordered a general sacrifice at which the whole army was to assist and like-wise he commanded that they should take the oath of allegiance and swear to assist in the extirpation of Christianity in Gaul. Alarmed at these orders each individual of the Theban Legion absolutely refused either to sacrifice or take the oaths prescribed. This so greatly enraged Maximian, which he ordered the legion to be, decimated that is, every tenth man to be selected from the rest and put to the sword. This bloody order having been put in execution and those who remained alive were still inflexible. When a second decimation took place and every tenth man of those living was put to death. This second severity made no more impression than the first had done. The soldiers preserved their fortitude and their principles but by the advice of their officers they drew up a loyal remonstrance to the emperor. This would have softened the emperor but it had a contrary effect. He was so enraged at their perseverance and unanimity he commanded that the whole legion should he put to death which was accordingly executed by the other troops who cut them to pieces with their swords September 22, 286. Alban, from whom Alban’s in Hertfordshire, was the first British martyr. Great Britain had received the Gospel of Christ from Lucius the first Christian king but did not suffer from the rage of persecution for many years after. He was originally a pagan but converted by a Christian ecclesiastic named Amphibalus, whom he sheltered on account of his religion. The enemies of Amphibalus having intelligence of the place where he was secreted came to the house of Alban in order to facilitate his escape. 

When the soldiers came he offered himself up as the person they were seeking for. The deceit being detected and the governor ordered him to be scourged and then he was sentenced to be beheaded, June 22, AD 287. The executioner suddenly became a convert to Christianity and entreated permission to die for Alban or with him. Obtaining the latter request a soldier beheaded them who voluntarily undertook the task of executioner. This happened on the twenty-second of June, AD 287 at Verulam. There was a church erected to his memory about the time of Constantine the Great. The edifice being destroyed in the Saxon wars was rebuilt by Offa, king of Mercia and a monastery erected adjoining to it. Faith a Christian female of Acquitain in France was ordered to be broiled upon a gridiron and then beheaded in AD 287. Quintin was a Christian and a native of Rome but determined to attempt the propagation of the Gospel in Gaul and with one Lucian they preached together in Amiens;. After which Lucian went to Beaumaris where he was martyred. Quintin remained in Picardy and was very zealous in his ministry. Being seized upon as a Christian he was stretched with pullies until his joints were dislocated and his body was then torn with wire scourges and boiling oil and pitch poured on his naked flesh and lighted torches were applied to his sides and armpits and after he had been thus tortured he was remanded back to prison and died of the barbarities he had suffered. October 31, AD 287. His body was sunk in the Somme.








Tenth Persecution Under Diocletian 303 AD 

The fatal day fixed upon to commence the bloody work was the twenty-third of February AD 303. That being the day in which the Terminalia were celebrated and on which the cruel pagans boasted they hoped to put a termination to Christianity. On the appointed day the persecution began in Nicomedia. with a great number of officers and assistants. They all went to the church of the Christians where having forced open the doors they seized upon all the sacred books and committed them to the flames. The whole of this transaction was in the presence of Diocletian and Galerius, who not contented with burning the books had the church levelled with the ground. This was followed by a severe edict commanding the destruction of all other Christian churches and books and to render Christians of all denomination outlaws. The publication of this edict forced Christians not only to tear it down from the place to which it was affixed but execrated the name of the emperor for his injustice. A provocation like this was sufficient to call down pagan vengeance upon their heads. All the Christians were apprehended and imprisoned and Galerius privately ordered the imperial palace to be set on fire that the Christians might be charged as the incendiaries and a plausible pretence given for carrying on the persecution with the greater severities. A general sacrifice was commenced which occasioned various martyrdoms. No distinction was made of age or sex. Many houses were set on fire and whole Christian families perished in the flames and others had stones fastened about their necks and being tied together were driven into the sea. The persecution became general in all the Roman provinces but more particularly in the east. It lasted ten years. It is impossible to ascertain the number martyred or to enumerate the various modes of martyrdom. Racks, scourges, swords, daggers, stakes, poison, and famine, were made use of in various parts to dispatch the Christians; and invention was exhausted to devise tortures against such as had no crime, but thinking differently from the votaries of superstition. A city of Phrygia, consisting entirely of Christians was burnt and all the inhabitants perished in the flames. Tired with slaughter at length several governors of provinces represented to the imperial court the impropriety of such conduct. Hence many were respited from execution but though they were not put to death as much as possible was done to render their lives miserable. Many of them having their ears cut off, their noses slit, their right eyes put out, their limbs rendered useless by dreadful dislocations, and their flesh seared in conspicuous places with red-hot irons. It is necessary now to particularise the most conspicuous persons who laid down their lives in martyrdom in this bloody persecution. Sebastian a celebrated martyr was born at Narbonne in Gaul. He instructed in the principles of Christianity at Milan and afterward became an officer of the emperor's guard at Rome. He remained a true Christian in the midst of idolatry unallured by the splendours of a court, untainted by evil examples and uncontaminated by the hopes of preferment. Refusing to be a pagan the emperor ordered him be taken to a field near the city and there to be shot to death with arrows. Some pious Christians coming to the place of execution in order to give his body burial. They perceived signs of life in him and immediately moving him to a place of security. 



They effected his recovery and prepared him for a second martyrdom. As soon as he was able to go out he placed himself intentionally in the emperor's way as he was going to the temple. He apprehended him for his various cruelties and unreasonable prejudices against Christianity. As soon as Diocletian had overcome his surprise he ordered Sebastian to be seized and carried to a place near the palace and beaten to death and that the Christians should not either use means again to recover or bury his body. He ordered that it should be thrown into the common sewer. Nevertheless, a Christian lady named Lucina, found means to remove it from the sewer and bury it in the catacombs or repositories of the dead. The Christians, about this time, upon mature consideration thought it unlawful to bear arms under a heathen emperor. Maximilian, the son of Fabius Victor was the first beheaded under this regulation. Vitus a Sicilian of considerable family was brought up a Christian. When his virtues increased with his years and his faith was superior to the most dangerous perils. His father Hytas, who was a pagan finding that he had been instructed in the principles of Christianity by the nurse who brought him up used all his endeavours to bring him back to paganism and at length sacrificed his son to the idols June 14, AD 303. Victor was a Christian of a good family at Marseilles in France. He spent a great part of the night in visiting the afflicted and confirming the weak and his fortune he spent relieving the distresses of poor Christians. He was at length however seized by the emperor Maximian's decree who ordered him to be bound and dragged through the streets. During the execution of this order, he was treated with all manner of cruelties and indignities by the enraged populace. Remaining still inflexible his courage was deemed obstinacy. Being by order stretched upon the rack, he turned his eyes toward heaven and prayed to God to endue him with patience after which he underwent the tortures with most admirable fortitude. After the executioners were tired with inflicting torments on him, he was conveyed to a dungeon. In his confinement, he converted his jailers named Alexander, Felician, and Longinus. This affair coming to the ears of the emperor, he ordered them immediately to be put to death, and the jailers were accordingly beheaded. Victor was then again put to the rack unmercifully beaten with batoons and again sent to prison. Being a third time examined, he persevered in his principles. A small altar was then brought and he was commanded to offer incense upon it immediately. Fired with indignation at the request he boldly stepped forward and with his foot overthrew both altar and idol. This so enraged the emperor Maximian who was present that he ordered the foot with which he had kicked the altar to be immediately cut off and Victor was thrown into a mill and crushed to pieces with the stones AD 303. Maximus governor of CilicI Three Christians were brought before him, their names were Tarachus, an aged man, Probus and Andronicus. After repeated tortures and exhortations to recant, they were ordered for execution. Being brought to the amphitheatre were several beasts were let loose upon them but none of the animals would touch them. The keeper then brought out a large bear but this voracious creature and a fierce lioness both refused to touch the prisoners. Finding the design of destroying them by the means of wild beasts ineffectual Maximus ordered them to be slain by the sword, on October 11, AD 303. Romanus a native of Palestine was deacon of the church of Caesarea at the time of the commencement of Diocletian's persecution. 



Being condemned for his faith at Antioch he was scourged and put to the rack and his body torn with hooks, his flesh cut with knives, his face scarified, his teeth beaten from their sockets and his hair plucked up by the roots. Soon after he was ordered to be strangled, November 17, AD 303. Susanna the niece of Caius who was bishop of Rome was pressed by the emperor Diocletian to marry a noble pagan, who was nearly related to him. Refusing the honour intended her she was beheaded by the emperor's order. Dorotheus the high chamberlain of the household to Diocletian was a Christian and took great pains to make converts. In his religious labours he was joined by Gorgonius another Christian and one belong to the palace. They were first tortured and then strangled. Peter a eunuch belonging to the emperor was a Christian of singular modesty and humility. He was laid on a gridiron and broiled over a slow fire until he expired. The persecution of Diocletian began particularly to rage in AD 304 when many Christians were put to cruel tortures and the most painful and ignominious deaths. The most eminent and particular of whom we shall enumerate. Saturninus a priest at Albitina a town of Africa, after being tortured he was remanded to prison and there starved to death. His four children after being variously tormented shared the same fate with their father. Dativas a noble Roman senator. Thelico a pious Christian. Victoria a young lady of considerable family and fortune with some others of less consideration all auditors of Saturninus were tortured in a similar manner and perished by the same means. 

Agrape, Chionia and Irene three sisters were seized upon at Thessalonica when Diocletian’s persecution reached Greece. They were burnt, and received the crown of martyrdom in the flames March 25, AD 304. The governor finding that he could make no impression on Irene ordered her to be exposed naked in the streets and a fire was kindled near the city wall amidst whose flames her spirit ascended beyond the reach of man's cruelty. Agatho a man of a pious turn of mind with Cassice, Phillippa, and Eutychia, were martyred about the same tine but the particulars have not been transmitted to us. Marcellinus bishop of Rome who succeeded Caius in that see having strongly opposed paying divine honours to Diocletian suffered martyrdom by a variety of tortures in the year 324, He expired with the prospect of those glorious rewards it would receive by the tortures suffered in the body. Victorius, Carpophorus, Severus and Severianus, were brothers and all four employed in places of great trust and honour in the city of Rome. Having exclaimed against the worship of idols they were apprehended and scourged and the scourges, to the ends of which were fastened leaden balls. This punishment was exercised with such excess of cruelty that the pious brothers fell martyrs to its severity. Sabinus, bishop of Assisium, refusing to sacrifice to Jupiter and pushing the idol from him, had his hand cut off by the order of the governor of Tuscany. While in prison, he converted the governor and his family, all of whom suffered martyrdom for the faith. Soon after their execution, Sabinus himself was scourged to death, December, AD 304. Tired with the farce of state and public business the emperor Diocletian resigned the imperial diadem and was succeeded by Constantius and Galerius. The former a prince of the most mild and humane disposition and the latter equally remarkable for his cruelty and tyranny. 



These divided the empire into two equal governments. Galerius ruling in the east and Constantius in the west and the people in the two governments felt the effects of the dispositions of the two emperors, for those in the west were governed in the mild manner but such as resided in the east felt all the miseries of oppression and lengthened tortures. Pamphilus a native of Phoenicia, was a man of such extensive learning that he was called a second Origen. He was received into the body of the clergy at Caesarea where here he established a public library and spent his time in the practice of every Christian virtue. He copied the greatest part of the works of Origen with his own hand and assisted by Eusebius, gave a correct copy of the Old Testament which had suffered greatly by the ignorance or negligence of former transcribers. In the year 307, he was apprehended and suffered torture and martyrdom. Marcellus bishop of Rome being banished on account of his faith and fell a martyr to the miseries he suffered in exile, January 16, AD 310. Peter the sixteenth bishop of Alexandria was martyred November 25 AD 311 by order of Maximus Caesar who reigned in the east. Agnes, a virgin of only thirteen years of age was beheaded for being a Christian as was Serene the empress of Diocletian. Valentine, a priest suffered the same fate at Rome and Erasmus, a bishop, was martyred in Campania. Soon after this the persecution abated in the middle parts of the empire as well as in the west and Providence at length began to manifest vengeance on the persecutors. Maximian endeavoured to corrupt his daughter Fausta to murder Constantine her husband which she discovered and Constantine forced him to choose her own death when he preferred the ignominious death of hanging after being an emperor near twenty years. At this time, Satan, together with a deceived Constantine started the seeds of the Roman Catholic Church.


The Whore. Nimrod and the devil started the Babylonian Mysteries ninety years after the flood. Constantine added them to the Roman Christian Church with the help of Satan. My understanding of the coming of Constantine is that he trusted more in his devilish pagan ways then the Christian way. Most people are taught today that the Roman Church took in the pagan religions by changing times and commandments of God to influence the surrounding religions into Christianity. But by changing the original way Jesus instituted his Church was the very reason that the pagans took over the Christian Church. Satan had planted in the human mind over the centuries the Babylonian sun worshipping ways which is Satan’s religion. So the truth of the matter is that the mature Babylonian Roman Religion took over the Christian Church and sent the elect, the little flock underground. There were so many killed by the deception of the devil that it would take years to record all of them(Hundreds of Millions). The above is just a very small account of Satan’s rule on this earth through mans pride. The next number of pages are dedicated to just a few events that will show you how Gods Church over the years have been murdered by so called Christians who have been deceived by Satan and who really will not fall in line with the Babylonian Mysteries. 






“ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: and written upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATION. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration” Rev 17:4 - 6

Papal persecutions 

Thus far, the history of Christian persecution has been confined principally to the pagan world. We come now to a period when persecution under the guise of Christianity, under the Great Mother of Harlots (the Roman Church). She has committed more enormities than ever disgraced the annals of paganism. Disregarding the maxims and the spirit of the Gospel, the papal Church arming herself with the power of the sword, vexed the Church of God the little flock and wasted it for several centuries, a period most appropriately termed in history the "dark ages." The kings of the earth gave their power and still do, to the "Beast " and submitted to the miserable vermin that often filled the papal chair. Their has been papal persecution from the time of Constantine but as we early stated it would take years to write all of it down but it is well document and easily found.


Persecution of the Waldenses in France 

Popery having brought various innovations into the Church for example by changing the laws (commandments) and times of God and introducing pagan feast to Christianity such as Christmas, Good Friday and Easter and much more and making the Roman Church look like a Christian Church. They have replaced Gods Laws and feast while stating that they are the only true CHURCH OF CHRIST. There are a few who plainly have perceived the pernicious tendency of such errors and are willing and determined to show the light of the Gospel in its real purity. To disperse those clouds which artful priests had raised about it our Lords gospel in order to blind the people and obscure the real brightness of the Gospel. One of the principal among these true Christians was Berengarius, who at about the year 1000, boldly preached Gospel truths and according to their primitive purity. Many from conviction assented to his doctrine and were on that account called Berengarians. To Berengarius succeeded Peter Bruis, who preached at Toulouse under the protection of an earl named Hildephonsus The whole tenets of the reformers from the earliest times was to obtain truth which meant separation from the Church of Rome (the whore Church). They published in a book written by Bruis under the title of' Anti-Christ. By the year of Christ 1140 the numbers of the reformers was very great and the probability of its increasing alarmed the pope. As a result the pope wrote to several princes to banish them from their dominions and employed many learned men to write against their doctrines. 



In AD 1147 Henry of Toulouse was deemed their most eminent preacher the movement became known as Henericians and as they would not admit to any proofs relative unless they where deduced from the Scriptures themselves. The popish party gave them the name of apostolics. At length Peter Waldo or Valdo a native of Lyons eminent for his piety and learning and his strenuous oppossition to popery, this is were the reformers received the name of Waldenses or Waldoys. Pope Alexander III being informed by the bishop of Lyons of these transactions excommunicated Waldo and his reformers and commanded the bishop to exterminate them if possible from the face of the earth. Hence began the papal persecutions against the Waldenses. The proceedings of Waldo and the reformers started the first rise of the inquisitors by Pope Innocent III. He authorised certain monks as inquisitors. They were to inquire for and deliver over the reformed to the secular power. The process was short. The accusation was deemed adequate to guilt and a candid trial was never granted the accused. 


The pope finding that these cruel means had not the intended effect then sent several learned monks to preach among the Waldenses and to endeavour to argue them out of their opinions. Among these monks was one Dominic who appeared extremely zealous in the cause of popery. This Dominic instituted an order (group) which from him was called the order of Dominican friars; and the members of this order have ever since been the principal inquisitors in the various inquisitions around the world. The power of the inquisitors was unlimited they proceeded against whom they pleased without a consideration of age, sex or rank. It did not matter who the accuser was or if there was insufficient evidence, the accusation was deemed valid if they did not repent and return to the Roman Church. To be rich was a crime equal to heresy therefore many who had money were accused of heresy or of being favourers of heretics. The dearest friends or nearest kindred could not without danger, serve any one who was imprisoned on account of their beliefs. To convey to those who were confined a little straw or give them a cup of water was called favouring of the heretics and they were prosecuted accordingly. No lawyer dared to plead for his own brother and their malice even extended beyond the grave, hence the bones of many were dug up and burnt, as examples to the living. If a man on his deathbed was accused of being a follower of Waldo his estates were confiscated and the heir to them defrauded of his inheritance and some were sent to the Holy Land. And the Dominicans took possession of their houses and properties and when the owners returned would often pretend not to know them. These persecutions were continued for several centuries under different popes and other great dignitaries of the Catholic Church.










Persecutions of the Albigenses 

The Albigenses were a people of the reformed religion, who inhabited the country of Albi. They were condemned on the score of religion in the Council of Lateran by order of Pope Alexander II. Nevertheless they increased so prodigiously that many cities were inhabited by persons only of their persuasion and several eminent noblemen embraced their doctrines. Among the latter were Raymond earl of Toulouse, Raymond, earl of Foix, the earl of Beziers, etc. A friar named Peter having been murdered in the dominions of the earl of Toulouse gave the pope a pretence to persecute that nobleman and his subjects. To effect this he sent priest throughout all Europe in order to raise forces to act coercively against the Albigenses, and promised paradise to all that would come to this war which he termed a holy war and they must bear arms for forty days. The same indulgences were likewise held out to all that entered themselves for the purpose to engage in the crusades to the holy Land. The brave earl defended Toulouse and other places with the most heroic bravery and success against the pope's legates and especially against Simon earl of Montfort a bigoted Catholic nobleman. Unable to subdue the earl of Toulouse openly the king of France and the queen mother and three archbishops raised another formidable army. Then they persuaded the earl of Toulouse to come to a conference. He was treacherously seized upon and made a prisoner. He was forced to appear barefooted and bareheaded before his enemies and compelled to subscribe an abject recantation. This was followed by a severe persecution against the Albigenses, and express orders that the laity should not be permitted to read the sacred Scriptures. In the year 1620 also the persecution against the Albigenses was very severe. In 1648 a heavy persecution raged throughout Lithuania and Poland. The cruelty of the Cossacks was so excessive that the Tartars themselves were ashamed of their barbarities. Among others who suffered was the Rev. Adrian Chalinski who was roasted alive by a slow fire and whose sufferings and mode of death may depict the horrors, which the professors of true Christianity have endured from the enemies of the Redeemer. The reformation of papistical error very early was projected in France for in the third century a learned man named Almericus and six of his disciples were ordered to be burnt at Paris for asserting that God was no otherwise present in the sacramental bread than in any other bread and that it was idolatry to build altars or shrines to saints and that it was ridiculous to offer incense to them. The Roman Church, the Babylonian Mysteries (Whore Church of Revelation) today is still changing times and laws and hanging on to the idolatry of the past. The martyrdom of Almericus and his pupils did not however prevent many from acknowledging the justness of his notions and seeing the purity of the reformed beliefs, resulted in the faith of Christ to increase and in time not only spread itself over many parts of France but it also diffused the light of the true Gospel over various other countries. In the year 1524 in a town in France called Melden a person named John Clark set up a bill on the church door, which stated that the pope was Antichrist. For this offence he was repeatedly whipped and then branded on the forehead. 





Going afterward to Mentz in Lorraine he demolished some Roman Catholic Church pagan images for which he had his right hand and nose cut off and his arms and breast torn with pincers. He sustained these cruelties with amazing fortitude and was even sufficiently cool to sing the One hundredth and fifteenth Psalm which expressly forbids idolatry and after which he was thrown into the fire and burned to ashes, read Psalms 115. Many persons of the reformed persuasion were beaten, racked, scourged and burnt to death in several parts of France by the Roman Church under the Pope but more particularly at Paris. Malda, and Limosin. A native of Malda was burnt by a slow fire for saying that the Mass was a plain denial of the death and passion of Christ. At Limosin, John de Cadurco a clergyman of the reformers was apprehended and ordered to be burnt. Francis Bribard secretary to cardinal de Pellay, for speaking in favour of the reformers had his tongue cut out and was then burnt, AD 1545. James Cobard a schoolmaster in the city of St. Michael was burnt, AD 1545 for saying 'That Mass was useless and absurd' and about the same time fourteen men were burnt at Malda, with their wives being compelled to stand by and behold the execution. 1546 AD. Peter Chapot brought a number of Bibles in the French tongue to France and publicly sold them there for which he was brought to trial, sentenced and executed a few days afterward. Selling or giving away the bible or the word of God was a death sentence. Soon after a cripple of Meaux a schoolmaster of Fera, named Stephen Poliot and a man named John English were burnt for the faith. Monsieur Blondel a rich jeweller was in AD 1548 apprehend at Lyons and sent to Paris there he was burnt for the faith by order of the court AD 1549. Herbert a youth of nineteen years of age was committed to the Aames at Dijon as was also Florent Venote in the same year. In the year 1554 two men of the reformed religion, with the son and daughter of one of them, were apprehended and committed to the castle of Niverne. On examination they confessed their faith (their believe in the Gospel and were ordered to be executed and being smeared with grease, brimstone, and gunpowder, they cried "Salt on, salt on this sinful and rotten flesh." Their tongues were then cut out and they were afterward committed to the flames, which soon consumed them by means of the combustible matter with which they were besmeared. And their crime was that they did not believe in the Roman Catholic Doctrine. These are an example of the saints in Revelations, which are looking for justice from Jesus on His return to earth. And the Roman Church will receive it on the Lords return, so it says in the Bible, if you take the time to read it. The Roman Catholic Church does not want anyone to read this book because it causes them to lose their power.












Bartholomew massacre at Paris. 

On the twenty second day of August 1572 this diabolical act of sanguinary brutality began. It was intended to destroy at one stroke the root of the Protestant tree which had only before partially suffered in its branches. The king of France had artfully proposed a marriage between his sister and the prince of Navarrel the captain and prince of the Protestants. This imprudent marriage was publicly celebrated at Paris by the cardinal of Bourbon upon a high stage erected for the purpose. They dined in great pomp with the bishop and supped with the king at Paris. Four days after this the prince (Coligny) as he was coming from the Council was shot in both arms. He then said to Maure his deceased mother's minister. "O my brother, I do now perceive that I am indeed beloved of my God, since for His most holy sake I am wounded." The soldiers were appointed at a certain signal to burst out instantly to the slaughter in all parts of the city. When they had killed the admiral they threw him out at a window into the street where his head was cut off and sent to the pope. The savage papists still raging against him cut off his arms and private members and after dragging him three days through the streets hung him by the heels. After him they slew many great and honourable persons who were Protestants. Count Rochfoucault, Telinius, the admiral's son-in-law, Antonius, Clarimontus, marquis of Ravely, Lewes Bussius, Bandineus, Pluvialius, Burneius, etc. and falling upon the common people they continued the slaughter. So furious was their hellish rage that they slew all whom they suspected to be staunch in their diabolical religion. From Paris the destruction spread to all quarters of the realm. At Orleans a thousand were slain of men, women and children and six thousand at Rouen. At Meldith, two hundred were put into prison and later brought out by units and cruelly murdered. At Lyons, eight hundred were massacred. Here children hanging about their parents and parents affectionately embracing their children were pleasant food for the swords and bloodthirsty minds of those who call themselves the Catholic Church. Here three hundred were slain in the bishop's house and the impious monks would suffer none to be buried. At Augustobona on the people hearing of the massacre at Paris immediately shut their gates that no 

Protestants might escape and searching diligently for every individual of the reformed Church. They imprisoned and then barbarously murdered them. The same cruelty they practised at Avaricum, at Troys, at Toulouse, Rouen and many other places, running from city to city, towns and villages, through the kingdom. They were doing this in belief that the Pope was the Vicar of Christ and could do no wrong in his judgement. As a corroboration of this horrid carnage the following interesting narrative was written by a sensible and learned Roman Catholic. The nuptials of the young king of Navarre with the French king's sister was solemnised with pomp and all the endearments, all the assurances of friendship, all the oaths sacred among men, were profusely lavished by Catharine, the queen-mother, and by the king; during which, the rest of the court thought of nothing but festivities, plays, and masquerades. At last, at twelve o'clock at night, on the eve of St. Bartholomew, the signal was given. Immediately all the houses of the reformers were forced open at once. 



Admiral Coligny alarmed by the uproar jumped out of bed when a company of assassins rushed in his chamber. They were headed by one Besme who had been bred up as a domestic in the family of the Guises. This wretch thrust his sword into the admiral's breast and also cut him in the face. Immediately after this the ruffians threw the body out of the window and Coligny expired at Guise’s feet. Count de Teligny also fell to sacrifice. He had married Coligny’s daughter. His countenance was so engaging, that the ruffians when they advanced in order to kill him were struck with compassion but others more barbarous, rushing forward, murdered him. In the meantime all the friends of Coligny were assassinated throughout Paris, men, women, and children were promiscuously slaughtered and every street was strewed with expiring bodies. Some priests, holding up a crucifix in one hand and a dagger in the other ran to the chiefs of the murderers and strongly exhorted them to spare neither relations nor friends. Tavannes, marshal of France an ignorant and superstitious soldier who joined the fury of religion to the rage of party, rode on horse-back through the streets of Paris crying to his men 'Let blood! let blood ! Bleeding is as wholesome in August as in May. In the memories of his life written by his son, we are told that the father being on his deathbed and making a general confession of his actions the priest said to him, with surprise, 'What! no mention of St. Bartholomew's massacre ? 

To which Tavannes replied, I consider it as a meritorious action that will wash away all my sins.' Such horrid sentiments can a false spirit of religion inspires!

The king's palace was one of the chief scenes of the butchery. The king of Navarre had his lodgings in the Louvre and all his domestics were Protestants. Many of these were killed in bed with their wives, others, running away naked were pursued by the soldiers through the several rooms of the palace, even to the king's anti-chamber. The young wife of Henry of Navarre awaked by the dreadful uproar and being afraid for her consort and for her own life, seized with horror and half dead she flew from her bed in order to throw herself at the feet of the king. Bur scarce had she opened her chamber door, when some of her Protestant domestics rushed in for a safe refuge. The soldiers immediately followed and killed them in bed. Count de la Rochefoucault a young nobleman. The monarch felt some remorse and being touched with a kind of compassion, bid him, two or three times, not to go home, but lie in the Louvre. The count said he must go to his wife upon which the king pressed him no farther but said, 'Let him go! I see God has decreed his death.' And in two hours after he was murdered. "Very few of the Protestants escaped the fury of their enthusiastic persecutors. Among these was young La Force (afterwards the famous Marshal de la Force) a child about ten years of age whose deliverance was exceedingly remarkable. His father, his elder brother and he himself were seized together by the Duke of Anjou's soldiers. These murderers flew at all three and struck them at random, when they all fell and lay one upon another. The youngest did not receive a single blow, but appearing as if he was dead, escaped the next day; and his life, thus wonderfully preserved, lasted four score and five years. 




Many of the wretched victims fled to the waterside and some swam over the Seine to the suburbs of St. Germaine. The king saw them from his window which looked upon the river and fired upon them with a carbine that had been loaded for that purpose by one of his pages, while the queen-mother undisturbed and serene in the midst of slaughter looking down from a balcony encouraged the murderers and laughed at the dying groans of the slaughtered. The barbarous queen was fired with a restless ambition and she perpetually shifted her party in order to satiate it. Some days after this horrid transaction the French court endeavoured to palliate it by forms of law. They pretended to justify the massacre by a calumny and accused the admiral of a conspiracy, which no one believed. The parliament was commended to proceed against the memory of Coligny and his dead body was hanged in chains on Montfaucon gallows. The king himself went to view the shocking spectacle. So one of his courtiers advised him to retire and complaining of the stench of the corpse and he replied, 'A dead enemy smells well.' The massacres on St. Bartholomew' days are painted in the royal saloon of the Vatican at Rome, with the following inscription: Pontifex, Coligny necem probat, i. e., and ‘The pope approves of Coligny's death.' "The young king of Navarre was spared through policy rather than from the pity of the queen-mother and she keeping him prisoner until the king's death in order that he might be as a security and pledge for the submission of such Protestants as might, effect their escape. "This horrid butchery was not confined merely to the city of Paris. The like orders were issued from court to the governors of all the provinces in France and so that in a week's time about one hundred thousand Reformers were cut to pieces in different parts of the kingdom. Two or three governors only refused to obey the king's orders. One of these named Montmorrin governor of Auvergne wrote the king the following letter which deserves to be transmitted to the latest posterity. "SIRE: I have received an order under your majesty’s seal to put to death all the Protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty not to believe the letter a forgery but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it." At Rome the horrid joy was so great that they appointed a day of high festival and all with great indulgence to all who kept it and showed every expression of gladness they could devise! 

The man who first carried the news received 1000 crowns of the cardinal of Lorraine for his ungodly message. The king also commanded the day to be kept with every demonstration of joy concluding now that the whole race of Huguenots was extinct. Many who gave great sums of money for their ransom were immediately after slain and several towns which were under the king's promise of protection and safety were cut off as soon as they delivered themselves up on those promises to his generals or captains.











At Bordeaux at the instigation of a villainous monk two hundred and sixty-four were cruelly murdered some of them senators. . Another of the same pious fraternity produced a similar slaughter at Agendicum, Maine, where the populace at the holy inquisitors' satanical suggestion ran upon the Protestants and slew them and plundered their houses and pulled down their church. The duke of Guise entering into Blois suffered his soldiers to fly upon the spoil and slay or drown all the Protestants they could find. In this they spared neither age nor sex, defiling the women and then murdering them, from whence he went to mere and committed the same outrages for many days together. Here they found a minister named Cassebonius and threw him into the river. At Anjou they slew Albiacus a minister and many women were defiled and murdered there, among whom were two sisters who were abused before their father and then the assassins bound to a wall to see them and then slew them and him. The president of Turin after giving a large sum for his life was cruelly beaten with clubs, stripped of his clothes and hung feet upwards with his head and breast in the river, before he was dead they opened his belly and plucked out his entrails and threw them into the river and then carried his heart about the city upon a spear. At Barre great cruelty was used even to young children whom they cut open and pulled out their entrails which through very rage they gnawed with their teeth. Those who had fled to the castle were almost hanged. Thus they did at the city of Matiscon, counting it sport to cut off their arms and legs and afterward kill them and for the entertainment of their visitors they often threw the Reformers from a high bridge into the river saying, Did you ever see men leap so well?

At Penna, after promising them safety, three hundred were inhumanely butchered Persons of both sexes and conditions were indiscriminately murdered and the streets ringing with doleful cries and flowing with blood and the houses flaming with fire which the abandoned soldiers had thrown in. One woman was first abused by the brutal soldiers and which they commanded her to drown her husband. At Samarobridge they murdered one hundred Protestants after promising them peace and at Antisidor, one hundred were killed and cast part into a jakes and part into a river. One hundred put into a prison at Orleans were destroyed by the furious multitude. The Reformers, at Rochelle. Against Rochelle the king sent almost the whole power of France which besieged it several months they did very little execution on the inhabitants, yet by famine, they destroyed eighteen thousand out of two and twenty. The dead being too numerous for the living to bury became food for vermin and carnivorous birds. Many took their coffins into the churchyard laid down in them and breathed their last. Their diet had long been what the minds of those in plenty shudder at, even human flesh, entrails, dung and the most loathsome things became at last the only food of those champions for that truth and liberty. At every attack the besiegers met with such an intrepid reception that they left one hundred and thirty-two captains and a proportionate number of men dead in the field. The siege at last was broken up at the request of the duke of Anjou the king's brother who was proclaimed king of Poland and the king being wearied out easily complied whereupon honourable conditions were granted them. 




It is a remarkable interference of Providence that in this entire dreadful massacre not more than two ministers of the Gospel were involved in it. The tragical sufferings of the Protestants are too numerous to detail but the treatment of Philip de Deux will give an idea of the rest. After the miscreants had slain this martyr in his bed they went to his wife who was then attended by the midwife expecting every moment to be delivered. The midwife entreated them to stay the murder at least till the child which was the twentieth should be born. Notwithstanding this they thrust a dagger up to the hilt into the poor woman. Anxious to be delivered she ran into a corn loft but hither they pursued her stabbed her in the belly and then threw her into the street. By the fall the child came from the dying mother and being caught up by one of the Catholic ruffians he stabbed the infant and then threw it into the river.

From the revocation of the edict of Nantes to the French Revolution in 1789 

The persecutions occasioned by the revocation of the edict of Nantes took place under Louis XIV. This edict was made by Henry the Great of France in 1598 and secured to the Protestants an equal right in every respect whether civil or religious with the other subjects of the realm. All those privileges Louis the XIV confirmed to the Protestants by another statute called the edict of Nismes and kept them inviolably to the end of his reign. On the accession of Louis XIV the kingdom was almost ruined by civil wars. At this critical juncture the Protestants heedless of our Lord's admonition. "They that take the sword shall perish with the sword," took such an active part in favour of the king that he was constrained to acknowledge himself indebted to their arms for his establishment on the throne. Instead of cherishing and rewarding that party who had fought for him he reasoned that the same power which had protected could overturn him and listening to the popish machinations he began to issue out proscriptions and restrictions indicative of his final determination. Rochelle was presently fettered with an incredible number of denunciations. Montana and Millau were sacked by soldiers. 

Popish commissioners were appointed to preside over the affairs of the Protestants and there was no appeal from their ordinance except to the king's council. This struck at the root of their civil and religious exercises and prevented them being Protestants from suing a Catholic in any court of law. This was followed by another injunction to make an inquiry in all parishes into whatever the Protestants had said or done for twenty years past. This filled the prisons with innocent victims and condemned others to the galleys or banishment. Reformers were expelled from all offices, trades, privileges and employs, thereby depriving them of the means of getting their bread and they proceeded to such excess in this brutality that they would not suffer even the midwives to officiate but compelled their women to submit themselves in that crisis of nature to their enemies the brutal Catholics. Their children were taken from them to be educated by the Catholics and at seven years of age made to embrace popery. 





The reformed were prohibited from relieving their own sick or poor from all private worship and divine service was to be performed in the presence of a popish priest. To prevent the unfortunate victims from leaving the kingdom all the passages on the frontiers were strictly guarded yet. All that has been related hitherto were only infringements on their established charter, the edict of Nantes. At length the diabolical revocation of that edict passed on the eighteenth of October 1685 and was registered the twenty-second contrary to all form of law. Instantly the dragoons were quartered upon the Protestants throughout the realm that the king would no longer suffer any Huguenots in his kingdom and therefore they must resolve to change their religion. Hereupon the intendants in every parish (which were popish governors and spies set over the Protestants) assembled the reformed inhabitants and told them they must without delay turn Catholics either freely or by force. The Protestants replied that they 'were ready to sacrifice their lives and estates to the king but their consciences being God's they could not so dispose of them. Instantly the troops seized the gates and avenues of the cities and placing guards in all the passages entered with sword in hand crying, "Die, or be Catholics " In short they practised every wickedness and horror they could devise to force them to change their religion. They hanged both men and women by their hair or their feet and smoked them with hay until they were nearly dead and if they still refused to sign a recantation, they hung them up again and repeated their barbarities until, wearied out with torments without death they forced many to yield to them. Others they plucked off all the hair of their heads and beards with pincers. Others they threw on great fires and pulled them out again repeating it until they extorted a promise to recant. Some they stripped naked and after offering them the most infamous insults they stuck them with pins from head to foot and lanced them with penknives and sometimes with red-hot pincers they dragged them by the nose until they promised to turn. Sometimes they tied fathers and husbands, while they ravished their wives and daughters before their eyes. Multitudes they imprisoned in the most noisome dungeons where they practised all sorts of torments in secret. Their wives and children they shut up in monasteries. Such as endeavoured to escape by flight were pursued in the woods and hunted in the fields and shot like wild beasts nor did any condition or quality screen them from the ferocity of these infernal dragoons, even the members of parliament and military officers, though were ordered to quit their posts and repair directly to their houses to suffer the like storm. Such as complained to the king were sent to the Bastile where they drank the same cup. 

The bishops and the intendants marched at the head of the dragoons with a troop of missionaries, monks and other ecclesiastics to animate the soldiers to an execution so agreeable to their Holy Church (the Roman Whore) and so glorious to their demon god and their tyrant king. In forming the edict of Nantes the council were divided some would have all the ministers detained and forced into popery as well as the laity and others were for banishing them because their presence would strengthen the Reformers in perseverance. If they were forced to turn they would be secret and powerful enemies in the bosom of the Church because of their great knowledge and experience in controversial matters. 



This reason prevailing they were sentenced to banishment and only fifteen days allowed them to depart the kingdom. On the same day that the edict for revoking the Protestants' charter was published they demolished their churches and banished their ministers whom they allowed but twenty-four hours to leave Paris. The papists would not let them to dispose of their effects and threw every obstacle in their way to delay their escape until the limited time was expired, which subjected them to condemnation for life to the galleys. The guards were doubled at the seaports and the prisons were filled with the victims who endured torments The sufferings of the ministers and others who were sent to the galleys seemed to exceed all. Chained to the oar they were exposed to the open air night and day at all seasons and in all weathers. When through weakness of body they fainted under the oar and instead of a. cordial to revive them or viands to refresh them, they received only the lashes of a scourge or the blows of a cane or rope's end. They were most grievously tormented with vermin. Instead of a bed they had only a hard board, eighteen inches broad to sleep on and without any covering but their wretched apparel which was a shirt of the coarsest canvas with a slit on each side up to the armholes and once in three years they had a coarse frock and a little cap to cover their heads which were always kept close shaved as a mark of their infamy. The allowance of provision was as narrow as the sentiments of those who condemned them to such miseries and their treatment when sick is too shocking to relate, doomed to die upon the boards of a dark hold, covered with vermin and without the least convenience for the calls of nature. 

This murderous church reminds me of the Nazi campaign of the Second World War in which the Roman Catholic Pope did not do one thing to try and stop the murderous German Empire. The pope has been condemned in the people minds, which know the facts and know he was the biggest part of the silence because the German State had a very heavy Catholic history. Nor was it among the least of the horrors they endured that as ministers of Christ and honest men they were chained side by side to felons and the most execrable villains whose blasphemous tongues were never idle. If they refused to hear Mass they were sentenced to the bastinado and which dreadful punishment the followed. Preparatory to it the chains are taken off and the victims delivered into the hands of the Turks that preside at the oars and who strip them quite naked and stretching them upon a great gun and they are held so that they cannot stir. During which there reigns an awful silence throughout the galley. The Turk who is appointed the executioner and who thinks the sacrifice acceptable to his prophet Mahomet most cruelly beats the wretched victim with a rough cudgel or knotty rope's end until the skin is flayed off his bones. When he is near the point of expiring then they apply a most tormenting mixture of vinegar and salt to his wounds Thousands under their cruelties have expired in similar manner.







Martyrdom of John Calas 

John Calas and his wife were Reformers and had five sons whom they educated in the reformers way but Lewis one of the sons became a Roman Catholic. The father did not express any resentment or ill will upon the occasion. He led a dissipated life and was greatly addicted to gaming. This son was a Roman Catholic. One night they found the Roman Catholic sons body dead in the bedroom. Upon examination he found the body quite dead and by this time a papistical crowd of people were gathered about the house. The surgeon who had examined the body declared that he had been strangled and they took it into their heads he had been murdered and as the family was Reformers they presently supposed that the young man was about to change his religion and had been put to death for that reason. The poor father overwhelmed with grief for the loss of his child was advised by his friends to send for the officers of justice to prevent the suspicion looking events that may look like that he had murdered his son. This was accordingly done and David the chief magistrate or capitol took the father Peter the son, the mother, La Vaisse, and the maid all into custody and set a guard over them. He sent for M. de la Tour who examined the body for marks of violence but found none except the mark of the ligature on the neck. They found also the hair of the deceased done up in the usual manner and without the least disorder and his clothes were also regularly folded up and laid upon the counter. Notwithstanding these innocent appearances the capitol thought proper to agree with the opinion of the mob that he had his son hanged. The capitol continued the persecution with unrelenting severity, and without the least proof coming in thought fit to condemn the unhappy father, mother, brother, friend and servant. to the torture and put them all into irons on the eighteenth of November. Poor Calas, however an old man of sixty-eight was condemned to this dreadful punishment alone. He suffered the torture with great constancy and was led to execution in a frame of mind which excited the admiration of all that saw him and particularly of the two Dominicans (Father Bourges and Father Coldagues) who attended him in his last moments and declared that they thought him not only innocent of the crime laid to his charge but also an exemplary instance of true Christian patience, fortitude and charity. When he saw the executioner prepared to give him the last stroke he made a fresh declaration to Father Bourges but while the words were still in his mouth the capitol ran up to him and bawled out "Wretch, there are the men which are to reduce your body to ashes! Speak the truth." M. Calas made no reply but turned his head a little aside and that moment the executioner did his office. The popular outcry against this family was so violent in Languedoc that every body expected to see the children of Calas broke upon the wheel and the mother burnt alive. Young Donat Calas was advised to fly into Switzerland. Fifty masters of the Court of Requests unanimously declared the whole family of Calas innocent and recommended them to the benevolent justice of his majesty. The Duke de Choiseul, who never let slip an opportunity of signalising the greatness of his character not only assisted this unfortunate family with money but obtained for them a gratuity of 36,000 livres from the king. On the ninth of March 1765 the arrest was signed which justified the family of Calas and changed their fate. 



The ninth of March 1762, was the very day on which the innocent and virtuous father of that family had been executed. All Paris ran in crowds to see them come out of prison and clapped their hands for joy while the tears streamed from their eyes. This dreadful example of bigotry employed the pen of Voltaire in deprecation of the horrors of superstition and though an infidel himself his essay on toleration does honour to his pen and has been a blessed means of abating the rigour of persecution in most European states. Gospel purity will equally shun superstition and cruelty, as the mildness of Christ's tenets teaches only to comfort in this world and to procure salvation in the next. To persecute for being of a different opinion is as absurd as to persecute for having a different countenance, if we honour God, keep sacred the pure doctrines of Christ (this includes GODS COMMANDMENTS WHICH THE CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS do not do), put a full confidence in the promises contained in the Holy Scriptures. This Roman Church as not changed any of its pagan ways since its conception in 325 AD by Constantine. It is the Church (the whore) of Revelations that Jesus destroys on HIS RETURN.



Heresy: 

The Greek word hairesis means, 
(1) a choice, 
(2) a chosen opinion, “ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” II Peter 2:1 where “destructive opinions” are caused by false teaching, 
(3) a sect or party (holding certain opinions). Heresy is a deliberate denial of revealed truth coupled with the acceptance of error. Men made doctrine are usually false doctrines. “.....let God be true, but every man a liar,... “ Rom 3:4. 

The Roman Catholic Church distinguishes heresy from schism (disunity through lack of love) and apostasy (abandonment of Christianity). Heresy may be either “formal” (adherence to false doctrine by baptized Roman Catholics) or “material” (false doctrine held in ignorance by non-Christian). Through history the Roman Church (Babylonian Church) murdered multi millions for heresy and they are the biggest heretics in all history. The Roman church, the whore church is the church of Nimrod. All of Nimrods doctrines are still in place in the Roman Church. 











An Account of the Inquisition 

A Babylonian/Roman Catholic Church Murder Spree. When the reformers began to diffuse the Gospel light throughout Europe the Pope at the time was Innocent II. He entertained great fear for the Romish Church. He accordingly instituted a number of inquisitors or persons who were to make inquiries and apprehend and punish the so called heretics (Heretics in the sense that certain people would not do the will of the Roman Church the whore Church so they were Heretics) as all reformers were called by the papists. At the head of these inquisitors was one Dominic who had been canonised by the pope in order to render his authority. 


Dominic and the other inquisitors spread themselves into various Roman Catholic countries and treated the Protestants and Sabbath keepers and any one else that did not bend a knee to the Roman Church and they did it with the utmost severity. The Reformers were not the only group attacked. All the groups who did not conform to the Romish doctrine were attacked which includes Christians who were Sabbath worshippers, these being the true Christians the true Church. of God, the little flock, where all put under the term heretics. All groups were included as heretics. The fight between Roman and Reformers was deadly family feud between the whore Church and Her Harlots who were the Protestants and who simple moved its authority from Rome. 

In the process of time the pope not finding these roving inquisitors so useful as he had imagined. He then resolved upon the establishment of fixed and regular courts of Inquisition. The first office of Inquisition was established in the city of Toulouse and Dominic became the first regular inquisitor. Courts of Inquisition were now erected in several countries but the Spanish Inquisition became the most powerful and the most dreaded of any. Even the kings of Spain themselves were taught to dread the power of the lords of the Inquisition and the horrid cruelties they exercised. Anyone who differed in opinion from the Roman Catholics/ Babylonian Church was careful to conceal their sentiments. The most zealous of all the popish monks and those who most implicitly obeyed the Church of Rome were the Dominicans and Franciscans. The pope invested with an exclusive right of presiding over the different courts of Inquisition and gave them the most unlimited powers as judges delegated by him and immediately representing his person. They were permitted to excommunicate or sentence to death whom they thought might show the slight information of so called heresy. They were allowed to publish crusades against all which they deemed heretics and enter into leagues with sovereign princes to join their crusades with their forces. The present Pope today before he became Pope was the head and leader of the Inquisitor department for Rome.







In 1244 their power was further increased by the emperor Frederic II who declared himself the protector and friend of all the inquisitors and published the cruel edicts. 
(1). That all heretics who continued to be obstinate should be burnt. 
(2). That all heretics, who repented, should be imprisoned for life. This zeal in the emperor for the inquisitors of the Roman Catholic persuasion arose from a report which had been propagated throughout Europe that he intended to renounce Christianity. 

To contradict the report and to show his attachment to popery he backs up the Roman Church 100 %. The officers of the Inquisition are three inquisitors or judges, a fiscal proctor, two secretaries, a magistrate, a messenger, a receiver, a jailer, an agent of confiscated possessions, several assessors, counsellors, executioners, physicians, surgeons, doorkeepers, familiars and visitors, who were sworn to secrecy. The principal accusation against those who are subject to this tribunal is heresy, which comprises all that is spoken or written against any of the articles of the Roman creed or the traditions of the Roman Church. The inquisition likewise take cognisance of such as are accused of being magicians, Sabbath observes and of such who read the Scriptures in the common language, the Talmud of the Jews or the Alcoran of the Mahometans. 


Upon all occasions the inquisitors carry on their duties with the utmost severity and punish. A Reformers has seldom any mercy shown him and a Jew or any type of Christian other then Roman is far from being secure. A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation and the greater his wealth the greater his danger. The principal part of the inquisitors' cruelties is owing to their rapacity which they destroy the life to possess the property and under the pretence of zeal they plunder each obnoxious individual. A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser or of the witnesses against him but every method is taken by threats and tortures to force him to accuse himself by that means corroborate their evidence. High birth or distinguished rank or great dignity or eminent employment’s are no protection from its severities and the lowest officers of the Inquisition can make the highest characters tremble. When the person impeached is condemned he is either severely whipped or violently tortured and sent to the galleys or sentenced to death and in either case their effects are confiscated. After judgement a procession is performed at the place of execution which ceremony is called an act of faith. The following is an account of an act of faith. This was performed at Madrid in the year 1682. The officers of the Inquisition preceded by trumpets, kettledrums and their banner marched on the thirtieth of May in cavalcade to the palace of the great square where they declared by proclamation that on the thirtieth of June the sentence of the prisoners would be put in execution. 






Of these prisoners twenty men and women with one renegade Mahometan were ordered to be burned and fifty Jews and Jewesses having never before been imprisoned and repenting of their crimes were sentenced to a long confinement and to wear a yellow cap (sounds like the Nazi’s read their Roman Church history or were told of yellow cabs because they used cross of David on the Jews on their arms during the second world war). The whole court of Spain was present on this occasion. The grand inquisitor's chair was placed in a sort of tribunal far above that of the king. Among those who were to suffer was a young seventeen year old Jewess of exquisite beauty. Being on the same side of the scaffold where the queen was seated she addressed her in hope of obtaining a pardon in the following pathetic speech: Great queen will not your royal presence be of some service to me in my miserable condition? 

Have regard to my youth and, oh! consider that I am about to die for professing a religion imbibed from my earliest infancy ! 

Her majesty seemed greatly to pity her distress but turned away her eyes as she did not dare to speak a word in behalf of a person who had been declared a heretic. Now Mass began in the midst of which the priest came from the altar and placed himself near the scaffold and seated himself in a chair prepared for that purpose. The chief inquisitor then descended from the amphitheatre dressed in his cope and having a mitre on his head. After having bowed to the altar he advanced towards the king's balcony and went up to it attended by some of his officers who were carrying a cross and the Gospels with a book containing the oath by which the kings of Spain oblige themselves to protect the Catholic faith to extirpate heretics and to support with all their power and force the prosecutions and decrees of the Inquisition and a like oath was administered to the counsellors and whole assembly. The Mass was begun about twelve at noon and did not end until nine in the evening being protracted by a proclamation on of the sentences of the several criminals which were already separately rehearsed aloud one after the other. After this followed the burning of the twenty-one men and women whose intrepidity in suffering that horrid death was truly astonishing. The king's near situation to the criminals rendered their dying groans very audible to him he could not however be absent from this dreadful scene as it is esteemed a religious one and his coronation oath obliged him to give a sanction by his presence to all the acts of the tribunal. What we have already said may be applied to inquisitions in general as well as to that of Spain in particular. 

The Inquisition belonging to Portugal is exactly upon a similar plan to that of Spain having been instituted much about the same time and put under the same regulations. The inquisitors allow the torture to be used only three times but during those times it is so severely inflicted that the prisoner either dies under it or continues always after a cripple and suffers the severest pains upon every change of weather. We shall give an ample description of the severe torments occasioned by the torture from the account of one that suffered it the three respective times but happily survived the cruelties he underwent. At the first time of torturing the six executioners entered and stripped him naked to his drawers and laid him upon his back a stand elevated a few feet from the floor. 


The operation commenced by putting an iron collar round his neck and a ring to each foot, which fastened him to the stand. His limbs being thus stretched out they then wound two ropes round each thigh which ropes being passed under the scaffold through holes made for that purpose were all drawn tight at the same instant of time by four of the men on a given signal. It is easy to conceive that the pains which immediately succeeded were intolerable the ropes, which were of a small size cut through the prisoner's flesh to the bone making the blood to gush out at eight different places thus bound at a time. As the prisoner persisted in not making any confession of what the inquisitors required the ropes were drawn in this manner four times successively. The manner of inflicting the second torture was as follows. They forced his arms backwards so that the palms of his hands were turned outward behind him and by means of a rope that fastened them together at the wrist's and which was turned by an engine they drew them by degrees nearer each other in such a manner that the back of each hand touched and stood exactly parallel to each other. In consequence of this violent contortion both his shoulders became dislocated and a considerable quantity of blood issued from his mouth. This torture was repeated thrice and after which he was again taken to the dungeon and the surgeon set the dislocated bones. Two months after the second torture the prisoner being a little recovered was again ordered to the torture room and there for the last time made to undergo another kind of punishment which was inflicted twice without any intermission. 

The executioners fastened a thick iron chain round his body, which crossed at the breast terminated at the wrists. They then placed him with his back against a thick board at each extremity whereof was a pulley and through which there ran a rope that caught the end of the chain at his wrists. The executioner then stretching the end of his rope by means of a roller placed at a distance behind him and pressed or bruised his stomach in proportion as the ends of the chains were drawn tighter. They tortured him in this manner to such a degree that his wrists as well as his shoulders were dislocated. They were however soon set by the surgeons but the barbarians not yet satisfied with this species of cruelty made him immediately undergo the like torture a second time which he sustained (though if possible, attended with keener pains,) with equal constancy and resolution. After this he was again remanded to the dungeon and attended by the surgeon to dress his bruises and adjust the part dislocated and here he continued until their act of faith or jail delivery and when he was discharged he was crippled and diseased for life. 

The Roman Catholic Church has no answers for these murderous times but that they were doing God’s work of eliminating heretics from Gods world. It is not true because God has written in His word that there was to be a great whore church that would deceive the whole world and create a new Gospel away from the truth. If you are serious about the truth then read your bible and look into history. There is no other organization that fits into God’s plan like this Whore, all you have to do is open your mind to the truth. As for the Protestant faith, only God knows Himself who were true martyrs over the years. 





All I know about the bible and history is that the Protestants protested against the Roman authority and changed the worlds thinking towards the whore but they did not go far enough. They still are following the Roman / Babylonian Sabbath which was created by man (Constantine in 325 A,D.) that day is Sunday. And most of them have followed her changing of times and commandments. This is why our Lord is coming back to this earth. He will straighten out all things. “For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the Kings of the earth “ Rev 17:17-18

Cruel handling and burning of Nicholas Burton, an English merchant, in Spain 

The fifth day of November 1560. Mr. Nicholas Burton, citizen London .He was taken by the Roman Church. He perceived that they were not able to keep him or charge him that he had written, spoken or done any thing there in that country against the ecclesiastical or temporal laws of the same realm. He asked them what they had to lay to his charge. Notwithstanding they answered nothing but commanded him with threatening words to hold his peace and not speak one word to them. And so they carried him to the filthy common prison of the town of Cadiz where he remained in irons fourteen days amongst thieves. All which time he so instructed the poor prisoners in the Word of God and according to the good talent which God had given him in that behalf and also in the Spanish tongue. They embraced the Word of God and to reject their popish traditions. They were conveyed laden with irons from thence to a city called Seville and into a more cruel and straiter prison called Triana, where the said fathers of the Inquisition proceeded against him secretly according to their accustom able cruel tyranny that never after he could be suffered to write or speak to any of his nation so that to this day it is unknown who was his accuser. Afterward the twentieth of December they brought the said Nicholas Burton with a great number of other prisoners who professed the true Christian religion into the city of Seville to a place where the said inquisitors sat in judgement which they called auto, with a canvas coat, whereupon in divers parts was painted the figure of a huge devil, tormenting a soul in a flame of fire and on his head a copping tank of the same work. His tongue was forced out of his mouth with a cloven stick fastened upon it that he should not utter his conscience and faith to the people and so he was set with another Englishman of Southampton and divers other condemned men for religion, as well Frenchmen as Spaniards and upon a scaffold over against the said Inquisition where their sentences and judgements were read and pronounced against them. And immediately after the said sentences given they were carried from there to the place of execution out of the city where they most cruelly burned them for whose constant faith God is praised. This Nicholas Burton in the flames of fire had so cheerful a countenance. He embraced death with all patience and gladness that the tormentors and enemies which stood by, said, that the devil had his soul before he came to the fire and therefore they said his senses of feeling were past him. It happened that after the arrest of Nicholas Burton all th