"on the plea of religious zeal the most barbarous acts were committed... The weaker sex was not spared in the universal carnage, and, as in a town taken by assault, suffered outrages that were worse than death. Matron and maiden alike welcomed as merciful the blow that liberated them from an existence now rendered insupportable. Women approaching maternity were selected for more excruciating torments, and savage delight was exhibited in destroying the unborn fruit of the womb... the very innocence of childhood furnished no sufficient protection -- so literally did the pious Catholics of Paris interpret the oft-repeated exhortations of their holy father (Pope Saint Pius V) to exterminate not only the roots of heresy, but the very fibres of the roots."

Such is the face of the man of sin when he wields power and lets down his mask of false piety and toleration -- and many nations still wonder after this beast to our very day.