The Huguenots: A 16th Century Pain (Birth, Oppression, Civil War and St. Bartholomew Massacre)

We can start with the words of Voltaire: “It is well known what this has cost since Christians began to argue about dogma: From the 4th century until today, blood has been shed in droves, both on the scaffolds and on the battlefields.” The real wild examples of this bloodshed were first the Reformation, then, more violently, what happened through Calvinist Protestantism as an offshoot of it, and it continued throughout the 16th century.This century, an age of reformation, was the beginning of everything. While this age has witnessed the highest achievements of the human spirit, it has also seen, on the contrary, its most terrible hostilities. What makes this age so scary and dark is that hostility towards others is based on “correct religion”. This hostility was displayed against the other in order to advance the “correct religion”. The most painful example of these hostilities that disfigured the Reformation era is the Saint Bartholomew Massacre.