A little after midnight on the 24th of August, 1572 began the famed massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, in which some 2,000 Huguenots were killed by the mob in Paris alone. Last week, in hundreds of Roman Catholic churches throughout France, special Masses were said to ask forgiveness for this crime against fellow Christians, and many Protestant ministers also took note of the occasion to ask their congregations to forgive and forget.
This observance of St. Bartholomew's Day has grown year by year since 1937, when it was started by Abbe Paul Couturier, an ex-schoolteacher who had found his vocation as priest...
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