[Magdalen] Les Huguenots.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/10/2016 12:53:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:

Msgr  Ronald Knox's "Enthusiasm" has a helluva section on the Huguenots, 
and it's  rather entertaining.  They really were the Pentecostal Holy Rollers 
of  their time and place.  Ghastly at times, actually.  Fun  
stuff.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
 
Huguenots invented the word, "iconoclasm."  They loved to come  into
a RC church and smash the place up.  There was widespread damage
in this manner to many sites in France.  They were so efficient at  this
they finished off wrecking the medieval Orleans Cathedral, France which 
had been previously damaged in the 100 Years War.  It took until  the
nineteenth century for a neogothic replacement structure to be  finished.
 
Much as the majority of the French disliked this iconoclasm, the most
critical problem lay in the fact that the Huguenots were more  well-educated
and wealthier than the general French public, and then throw in  Cardinal
Richelieu, advisor to Louis XIV, and who had an especial dislike for
Huguenots, and you have the deadly revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
the religious toleration act (1685).
 
 
 
David Strang.