Counsel of Pope St. Pius V to Charles IX
Mar 8, 2018 16:45:19 GMT
Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2018 16:45:19 GMT
"Extirpate the heresy of the Kingdom": the wise counsel of Pope Saint Pius V to Charles IX
If your Majesty wishes to make his kingdom blossom, it must work to extirpate heresy: it must suffer in its states only the exercise of the Catholic religion, which has almost begun with the monarchy, and that the Kings Très Chrétiens your predecessors have professed and maintained so zealously. As long as there is a sharing in the minds of religion, Your Majesty will receive only anxiety, and the kingdom will be a bloody theater of continual factions. - Letter of Pope Saint Pius V to Charles IX (1570) Adapted from here.