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Fanatic Christians burnt alive millions of women in Europe. To hide their atrocities, they published fake SATI (wives burning themselves in pyres of Hindu husbands) drawings to malign Hindus.

World “famous” historians in their world “famous” books never wrote a single line in their books about these atrocities. Now we can rate those historians as notorious scoundrels. Despite their secrecy, now and then we see a few books and articles about the Christian atrocities.

Fanatic Christian bishops burnt millions of non- Christians , particularly women, dubbing them as witches. They spread the rumour that catastrophes will happen if they are allowed to live. They conducted fake enquiries and burnt them alive. The whole world knew how Joan of Arc was burnt alive thanks to Bernard Shaw’s book St Joan (London Swaminathan has translated it into Tamil).

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On the other day, I walked into a library in Sydney, Australia and I got the August 2025 History Today Magazine .

I give below some interesting points from the article, with my inputs.

In one French city alone, they interviewed more than 5000 people during the Great Inquisition of Toulouse.

Toulouse is in Southwestern France, known as the “Pink City” (La Ville Rose), it’s France’s fourth-largest city .

(Imagine if you are one of them who will be burnt alive. Also imagine how much fear would have been spread in the small town)

Spanish Inquisition is known to many. But it started even centuries before that.

Hersey is believing Non-Christian worship. The heretics were described as a big infectious disease. 12^th century Augustinian William of Newburgh referred to a group of foreign heretics that arrived in England in 1163 as a pestilence. And another person dubbed it as cancer.

The largest of the investigations in the Middle Ages was held at the vast Romanesque abbey of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse between May 1245 and August 1246. More than 5000 men and women from 100 villages were interviewed by the clergy.

Typical questions in the interview

Did you see any heretics?

Where, when, and who else was there ?

Did you eat and drink with them and did you give them anything ?

Did you ever swear to keep silent about all of this ?

Did you ever conceal the truth?

Use of torture

Torture was not practised in the early stage. Pope Innocent IV allowed torture methods in 1252.

Punishments

Excommunication

Pilgrimages to far flung places

Those who are found guilty must wear yellow crosses

Guilty and unapologetic will be executed.

Burning heretics began in 1022

The first case of heretics being burned occurred in 1022 at Orleans, but death by burning became a more common punishment from the 13th century. Burning heretics brought great joy to the faithful. Killing people and Violent deaths were enjoyed by thousands and thousands which people saw during French Revolution and executions of queens in the Tower of London in Britain.

(Joan of Arc was executed on May 30, 1431. At approximately 19 years old, she was burned at the stake in the Vieux-Marché (Old Market) in Rouen, France. She was condemned for heresy following a politically motivated trial by English-allied French clerics)

In the 1230s the chronicler and the inquisitor William of Pehission recounted an episode in the city of Alibi  in which inquisitors  condemned  the heretics Peter of Odiumperditum and Peter Bomacip to be burned- this execution terrified many other heretics and brought great joy to the faithful, according to William.

Historians called the heretics Cathars, a Greek word, meaning pure. But it is not found in the available manuscripts.

Doctors were heretics !

Even practising medicine was dubbed as anti-Christian. There was a rumour that heretics can have a book of medicine. Heretics Arnauts and Pons Faure  were sought out be one deponent  because they were the ‘best doctors’. Records show many heretics were doctors. People were banned going to doctors. Relatives brought the sick family members to the so called heretics  in the hope that they would be cured.

And in the manuscripts showed only pro clergy approach. It also reported street corner debates between the heretics and the clergy.

The statements of the people were translated into Latin, far removed from the vernacular dialects of Occitan that the deponents spoke.

The 13^th century chronicle of William of Puylarns captures the general feeling of people of Toulouse towards heretics with this anecdote;  a knight when asked by the bishop of Toulouse why he and his comrades had not attempted to expel the heretics from their territory replied,

 “We cannot; we were brought up with them, there are many of our relatives among them, and we can see their way of life is a virtuous one”.

The article in the magazine was written by Josua Rice of Britain. I have included my comments in the article.

–subham—

Tags- Toulouse inquisitions , Christian atrocities, burning women alive, History Today article, torture and punishments.