RHONE FLOWS RED

History of the Church records today, 29 August, in 1572, as a sad day. In the city of Lyon in France, following the onset of the St. Bartholomew Day’s Massacre, thousands of Huguenots (Protestants) are placed under protective custody in the city’s convents and jails, by the city officials. This doesn’t save their lives for more than two days.

Eye witness account, recorded by historian Jacques Auguste de Thou; John Foxe’s account from “Actes and Monuments” and a letter written by Marguerite de Valois, all say the same. crowds from the Roman church break into those places, and kill the Christians by sword, strangulation, and drowning. It is recorded through those who witnessed it, that the Rhone River flowed red, on that day, from the blood of thousands of mutilated corpses.

All through the history, those who followed the LORD Jesus Christ, were never spared by this world, and its powers. This is the reality of the Church. “18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.” – John 15:18-21

May the LORD Jesus help us to stand faithfully with Him, all the days of our lives, for we are living in one such times.