In 1144, an incident occurred to a child in England. Jews were not permitted in England until about 50 years prior to then, in 1089, and were just brought there to assist the king with collecting his taxes. Anyway, a child by the name of William was ritually murdered. But what made this event different was that the child was related to an educated monk, Thomas of Monmouth.
This event that occurred to William, like so many before it, would have eventually sunk into obscurity, but Thomas wanted to let the whole world know about the cruel and vicious nature of these wicked acts once and for all, probably with the hope of putting a stop to them. His book was written in Latin, and was later translated into English in the 19th century by Dr. A. Jessop. Thomas of Monmouth described how Jews abducted the child. Afterwards, according to Thomas, this occurred:
« Having shaved [William’s] head, they stabbed it with countless thorn-points, and made the blood come horribly from the wounds they made. And cruel were they and so eager to inflict pain that it was difficult to say whether they were crueler or more ingenious in their tortures. For their skill in torturing kept up the strength of their cruelty and ministered arms thereto. »
Thomas described the whole sordid event in detail: the abduction, the torture suffered by the child, the bribes Jews gave to the sheriff, and more. Thomas’s efforts to document this Jewish occult rite of an innocent child eventually resulted in the child becoming a saint, and he was remembered until modern-times, when the church no longer permitted such politically incorrect facts to be known.