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Updated: May 26, 2025
From their thumbscrewings, and their auto-da-fes, and from their massacres, and patriotic sermons, and holy wars, and from every manner of abomination, they come to me, smirking. And millions upon millions of them, Jurgen!
It would suit him excellently processions, macerations, extirpation of heresy, fagots, and auto-da-fes! Go on, worthy brother of his majesty, noble imbecile, go on!" And the duke, as if sensible of the encouragement, proceeded: "But the interests of religion are not the sole aim which you gentlemen propose.
Burning wicked heretics, In grand auto-da-fes. "This particular visit has, of course, nothing to do with the promised Advent, when, according to the programme, 'after the tribulation of those days, He will appear 'coming in the clouds of heaven. For, that 'coming of the Son of Man, as we are informed, will take place as suddenly 'as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west. No; this once, He desired to come unknown, and appear among His children, just when the bones of the heretics, sentenced to be burnt alive, had commenced crackling at the flaming stakes.
"What is it that an auto-da-fé is?" a young man demanded from a corner. "You don't know auto-da-fes? A dish, my child. An auto-da-fé is Liberal broiled." The character of the room, at which Chrysler now had time to glance, explained itself by a large painting of that lion-and-unicorn-supporting -the-British-arms, which embellishes Courts of Justice.
Never had the sacerdotal system more completely swayed a nation, and never had a nation been reduced to a more abject state of degradation. The Inquisition was its government, the auto-da-fés its triumphs, bull-fights and processions its only diversions. Had the inquisitorial reign lasted a few years more, this people would have been no longer reckoned amongst the civilised inhabitants of Europe.
These bonfires were of frequent occurrence in all the towns of Languedoc. But if the priests hated the printed word, still more did they hate the spoken word. They did not like the Bible, but they hated the preachers. Fines, auto-da-fés, condemnation to the galleys, seizures of women and girls, and profanation of the dead, were tolerable punishments, but there was nothing like hanging a preacher.
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