Note 432 — Chapter IX · THE THIRD CIVIL WAR. [1568–1570.]

Catena, Vita di Pio V. p. 85. He wrote to Catherine to fight the enemies of God “ad internecionem usque;” and to Anjou to show himself “omnibus inexorabilem.” He describes Coligny as “exsecrandum illum ac detestabilem hominem, si modo homo appellandus est.” See also No. xi. to Charles (6th March, 1569), in Potter’s Lettres de Pio V. (8vo. Paris, 1826), where “punire hæreticos eorumque duces omni severitate” will hardly support the writer in the Dublin Review (October, 1865), who contends that the Church exulted over the St. Bartholomew massacre, not because the victims were heretics, but because they were rebels. In the prayer ordered by Clement IX. to be read on 1st May, Pius V. is described as elect “ad conterendos ecclesiæ hostes.”