ESTIMATES OF THE NUMBER
KILLED BY THE PAPACY IN
THE MIDDLE AGES AND
LATER
David A. Plaisted
© 2006
It was with reason that the Serbian Orthodox Bishop, Dr. Nikolaj Velimirovic, so
well known to the Anglo-Saxon world, compared what happened in Croatia, on
such a large scale, with the darkest days of the Middle Ages. In an article
published in 1954 by the ecclesiastical review Svecanik, the Bishop wrote: ―The
Spanish Inquisition is noted for its atrocities. The head inquisitor, named by the
Pope, was the Dominican Monk Thomas de Torquemada, who is remembered
with such sinister bitterness. During the eighteen year period of his mandate,
10,220 persons were burned at the stake while 114,401 (according to the historian
Motley) perished from hunger and torture in their prisons, which meant 125,000
people within a period of eighteen years. This record is frightful enough, but the
inquisition of the Serbian Orthodox was much more terrible, for 750,000 Serbs
were killed in just four years.‖
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