Machiavellian, Jesuit, Sodomites

Late last night while I was discovering the Armagh Troubles,I learned about the Ulster Volunteer Force . Seems the UK classifies the UVF as a  "proscribed" organization. (My earlier posts about the peculiar "St Paddy's" day events prompted these  bizarre forays into unknown territory).

Well now,  coming from a trailer park background  all this info shimmered  for me.(the damn education system here is  abysmally inadequate) This is why the internet is  so  exquisite,I can actually  learn something. But I digress.

Somehow in my discovery  of  the  word proscribe I stumbled upon the art work  of John Everett Millais and his  painting dealing with proscription HERE

Why was I so  woefully ignorant of the  work  of Millais? Trailer park background? Yep.

Moving right along.The above painting,titled,A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1852) raised  many questions. Having a bare essentials  knowledge of Huguenots it prompted a further investigation.  More important, what was St. Bartholomew's Day? (Sheesh  all our histories  deliberately memory holed).

St. Bartholomew's Day  St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 

was a nasty tale that had somehow evaded  my radar  screen. Discovering the myriad details, one fact  jumped out, ***The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the events surrounding it were incorporated into D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance (1916). The film follows Catherine de' Medici (Josephine Crowell) plotting the massacre, coercing her son King Charles IX (Frank Bennett) to sanction it. Incidental characters include Henri of Navarre, Marguerite de Valois (Constance Talmadge), Admiral Coligny (Joseph Henabery) and the Duke of Anjou, who is portrayed as homosexual. ***

also, *** In Bordeaux the inflammatory sermon on September 29 of a Jesuit, Edmond Auger, encouraged the massacre that was to occur a few days later***

also, ***It was in this context that the massacre came to be seen as a product of Machiavellianism***

also, ***Christopher Marlowe was one of many Elizabethan writers who were enthusiastic proponents of these ideas. In the Jew of Malta (1589–90) "Machievel" in person speaks the Prologue, claiming to not be dead, but to have possessed the soul of (the Duke of) Guise, "And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France/ To view this land, and frolic with his friends" (Prologue, lines 3-4)^[61] His last play, The Massacre at Paris (1593) takes the massacre, and the following years, as its subject, with Guise and Catherine both depicted as Machiavellian plotters, bent on evil from the start. The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 was still ready to endorse a version of this view, describing the massacres as "an entirely political act committed in the name of the immoral principles of Machiavellianism" and blaming "the pagan theories of a certain raison d'état according to which the end justified the means"***

So, my conclusion for now... History repeats itself yet again. Here I delineate a conspicuous linkage  with homosexuals, Jesuits  and  Machiavellianism. Sure is no coincidence that these  same players operate today in the  exact same manner. My lesson for the  day  is over  . Thanks  for stopping by.