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Originally posted by Rudey
If someone went into the Vatican and killed just 124 priests, cardinals, and possibly a Pope that would be just a few deaths right?
Again that number is for only one guy and the total numbers are distorted to not included those that died when the Church turned them over to secular bodies for execution or those who dies awaiting "Trial".
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Rudey the numbers cited are the numbers of those turned over to the secular authorities for execution - only the secular authorities had the legal right to actually put a person to death, Cannon Law and Civil Law were quite clear on this during the Medieval period.
The reason the I used Bernard Gui is one that he was one of the more brutal by all accounts, and he was the supreme/head Inquisitor in the region - all cases of capital sentances had to go through him... so those are the total numbers for the region over the 15 year period encapsulated by the records. The reason I chose Languedoc is that it was a hotbed of Cathar-ism and as such recieved particularly intense scrutiny from the Church, and experienced the longest period of continual Inquestional investigation in France. Basically looking at the one of the worst guys and one of the more intense prosecutions... to try and understand the impact of the Inquisition at it's height.
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That minimal number floated is several thousand (direct executions). And again if you find that number low, then 9/11 isn't a tragedy either to you.
I don't know what catholic.com is but I find it annoying that anyone that disagrees is called a "Fundamentalist" on there.
-Rudey
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Scale and time Rudey - if all of those executions and deaths happened in an instance, then yes it'd be a horrifying atrocity... but this happened over the course of 600 years.