# Great Persecution Of The Believers, Caused By The Mutual Contentions Of The Kings In France, In Said Year 842.

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In the same year in which the abovementioned
Bulgarian tyrant reigned and instituted so much
wickedness against the Christian believers, namely,
A. D. 842, the kings of the Franks, through their
wars, though they were brothers, it appears, grievously
persecuted and martyred the poor believers,
everywhere in the French territories; so that said
persecution and martyrdom is compared and regarded
as equal to the persecutions instituted in
earlier times by the heathen emperors. Of this, the
following is found in the last mentioned chronicle,
and in the same place: “The fraternal wars between
the kings of the Franks, were the cause of much
calamity and distress to the poor believers throughout
France, so that they might well be compared to
the cruel persecutions which in former times occurred
under the heathen princes.”

Concerning this, Remigius, Bishop of Auxerre,
who lived about this time, writes thus (on Ps. 69):
“There are different times of persecution; one,
when the heathen fall unmercifully upon the Christians;
the other, when the evil purpose of the (false)
Christians persecutes the believers, which time still
continues in the church; for, though the heathen
kings, and others, are dead, still the devil is not
dead, who secretly vents his cruelty, by secret instruments,
that is, through bad Christians. Chron.,
9th book, page 287, col. 1, from Leonhard, lib. 4,
histor. Georg., lib. 4, fol. 305.



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