Christian Apologetics a Defense of the Catholic Faith
Christian Apologetics a Defense of the Catholic Faith
Walter Devivier
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" It was principally under the reign of the virgin queen, the good Elizabeth, as she was called (1559-1603), that the persecutions against Catholics assumed the most barbarous character. This worthy daughter of Henry VIII. And Anne Boleyn put to death no fewer Catholics than her father; her atrocities startled the world and surpassed those of pagan antiquity. The massa- cres she ordered in Ireland were so terrible that, according to the Protestant writer Leland, " little more than ashes and dea...d bodies remained for her Majesty Elizabeth to govern. " 6. We cannot read without a shudder the account which the Protestant historian Kerroux gives in his Abrege de Vhistoire 464 CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS. de la Hollands, t. Ii. , of the cruel tortures which Catholics endured in the Netherlands. It is well known that in the provinces of Brabant and Flanders alone the Gueux de- stroyed in less than five days more than four hundred churches and cathedrals ; that they perpetrated upon priests, religious, and the Catholic faithful atrocities which could not be believed, if the lamentable facts were not confirmed by incontestable historical documents.
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