The modern Jєωιѕн scholar Ariel Toaff has practically demonstrated that ritual murder was reality
Interesting, but very sad. :sad:
Here's a sad account on Simon of Trent:
1475. Simon of Trent:
"In the year 1475, when the Jєωs of Trent met in their ѕуηαgσgυє on Tuesday in Holy Week, to deliberate preparations for the approaching festival of the Passover, which fell that year on Thursday following, they came to a resolution of sacrificing to their inveterate hatred of the Christian name, some Christian infant on the Friday following, or Good Friday.
“A Jєωιѕн physician undertook to procure such an infant for the horrid purpose. And while the Christians were at the office of Tenebrae on Wednesday evening, he found a child called Simon, about two years old, whom by caresses and by showing him a piece of money, he decoyed fromt he door of a house, the master and mistress whereof had gone off to Church, and carried him off.
“On Thursday evening the principal Jєωs shut themselves up in a chamber adjoining to their ѕуηαgσgυє, and at midnight began their cruel butchery of this innocent victim. (Ed. Note, Did not Christ say to the Jєωs, 'This is your hour, and the power of darkness'). having stopped his mouth with an apron to prevent his crying out, they made several incisions in his body, gathering his blood in a basin. Some, all this while, held his arms stretched out in the form of a cross; others held his legs.
“The child being half dead, they raised him to his feet, and while two of them held him by the arms, the rest pierced his body on all sides with their awls and bodkins. When they saw the child had expired, they sung round it: 'In the same manner did we treat Jesus the God of the Christians; thus may our enemies be confounded forever.'
“The magistrates and parents making strict search after the lost child, the Jєωs hid it first in a barn of hay, then in a cellar, and at last threw it into a river. But God countered all their endeavors to prevent the discovery of the fact, which being proved upon them, with its several circuмstances, they were put to death, the principal actors in the tragedy being broken upon the wheel and burned.
“The ѕуηαgσgυє was destroyed, and a chapel was erected upon the spot where the child was martyred. God honored this innocent victim with many miracles. The relics lie in a stately tomb in St. Peter's Church at Trent; and the name occurs in the Martyrology."
.htm](Quoted from here)Wikipedia says:
The Pope removed Simon from the Calendar of Saints in 1965. Simon of Trent does not appear in the new Roman Martyrology of 2000, nor on any modern Catholic calendar.
Sadly, I don't find this hard to believe; offending our 'Elder Brothers' would be too much...