성 바르톨로메오 축일의 학살 (1572.8.24-10)

성 바르톨로메오 축일 학살은 기독교의 역사상 1572년 8월 24일 부터 10월까지 있었던, 로마 가톨릭교회 추종자들이 위그노 즉 프랑스 개신교도들을 학살한 사건을 가리킨다.

St.Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572.8.24-1572.10)

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Queen Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX, the massacre started a few days after the marriage on 18 August of the king's sister Margaret to the Protestant Henry of Navarre...