# Many Christians Burnt In Flanders, A. D. 1183, And Very Many Put To Death In Other Places.

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For the year 1183 we read of many more such
people, who were called publicans (of which name
we have already spoken) and whom Philip, Count
of Flanders, and William, Archbishop of Rheims,
caused, most unmercifully, to be burnt.

Concerning this, Rigordus, an ancient historian
of those times, writes as follows for said year: “At
this time, very many heretics (thus this papistic
writer calls the true Christians), were burnt in Flanders,
by the reverend bishop of Rheims, cardinal
priest of the title of Sancta Sabina, Legate of the
Pope, and by Philip, the illustrious count of Flanders.
Rig., p. 168, edit. Wechelian.

“The same year,” says the above author, “over
seven thousand Cottarelli (thus he calls the pious
witnesses of Jesus, also called Waldenses and Albigenses),
were slain in the province of Bourges, by
the inhabitants of the land, who all united against
them, as against the enemies of God.”

Notice here, that they must all have been defenseless
people, since so great a number suffered themselves
to be put to death by so few people as there
were at that time in the small province of Bourges;
however, we leave this to God.

The same writer adds also this: “In the same
year, Pope Lucius condemned as heretics those who
in Italy were called Humilitani, and in France, Poor
Men of Lyons (the Albigenses and Waldenses),
whereupon, as may well be supposed, no small
persecution took place in those hot times.

This decree, it seems, was first published, or else
renewed, A. D. 1184, or, as others state, A. D. 1185.
according to the account of Mellinus, 2d book,
fol. 443, col. 2.



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