Word: bartholomews
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Protestant churchmen were outraged. When police refused to take the boxes from his church, Canon Walter Simpson of St. Bartholomew's cried: "The law was invoked to compel me to submit to treatment which was an offense to my conscience as a citizen and a Christian priest." Costello's boxes gleaned about ?51,000, but the collection so outraged the Orangemen that they poured out to the polls as never before. Dublin's Protestant Irish Times crowed that Costello's collection was worth 60,000 votes for the Unionists in the resentful North...
...Chelmsford, the Right Rev. H. A. Wilson, for readmission into the Church of England. Witcutt did not have to be ordained-the Church of England recognizes his Catholic orders. Last Sunday he was among the worshipers at East London's Church of St. Mary Magdalene-with-St. Bartholomew, where he has been appointed curate...
...religious wars and persecutions that flourised Bodin's lifetime were a compelling argument for the supreme state. Bodin himself thrice switched sides between Catholics and Protestans and still found no safety. He was almost killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre...
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...counterattack. When newspapermen asked him whether he intended to resign, he grinned: "The dead man is still standing up." To the deputies he cried: "Things have changed . . . Today we can shake hands with a Catholic without assuming him to be a supporter of the Inquisition or of Saint Bartholomew's massacre...