The Pope surprised some worshippers at the vigil by evoking the 1572 St Bartholomew's Day massacre of more than 4,000 French Protestants by Catholics.
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This event is known in history as the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
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It united them, as the massacre of St. Bartholomew united the Huguenots.
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We shall never know the inside history of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
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Two years later this name was justified by the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.
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The great massacre of St. Bartholomew was to sleep for seven years longer.
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That fearful crime, the bloody MassacreofSaintBartholomew, is familiar to everyone.
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Bubbles, did you ever hear of the MassacreofSaintBartholomew?
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Philanthropy had brought with it crimes as horrible as the massacreofSaintBartholomew.
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The Duke of Alencon had been an unwilling spectator of the massacreofSaintBartholomew.
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They thought the massacreofSaintBartholomew's Day a blunder as well as a crime.
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The whole marrow of his enterprise had been destroyed in an instant by the massacreofSaintBartholomew.
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The massacreofSaintBartholomew's Day (1572) was a horrible incident of Catherine's policy of "trimming."
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The duke, afterwards, did not scruple to avow his share in the preparations for the massacreofSaintBartholomew.
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The civil war went on for ten years, until in August 1572 the massacreofSaintBartholomew took place.
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The massacreofSaintBartholomew's Day did not destroy French Protestantism or render the Huguenot leaders more timid in asserting their claims.
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The Prince had felt an almost insurmountable repugnance towards entertaining any relation with that blood-stained court, since the massacreofSaintBartholomew.
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In the MassacreofSaintBartholomew (1572) over one thousand had been massacred in Paris and ten thousand more in the provinces.
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There are elements of mystery about the massacreofSaintBartholomew over which, presumably, historians will continue to dispute as long as histories are written.