In honor of it high mass was performed by the Pope ; salvoes of artillery thundered from the ramparts of St. Angelo ; a Te Deum was snng to celebrate the atrocious event, and a medal was struck for the same purpose. If every Protestant account of this terrible transaction must encounter suspicion, we ourselves will be satisfied with the testimony of this medal alone of Gregory Xllf., at that time the Pope ; -- evidence that scatters to the winds of heaven all the excuses and attempted apologies for those who perpetrated the St. Bartholomew massacre. The medal has as usual on the obverse a head of the Pope, Gregorius XIII. Pont. Max. An. I. The reverse exhibits a destroying angel with a cross in one hand, and a sword in the other, pursuing and slaying a flying and prostrate band of heretics. Strange work for an angel.^ The legend is: Hugonottorumstrages, (slaughter of the Huguenots,) 1572."^

Fac-eimile of Papal Medal in honour of the Massaci-e of St. Kartholomew'a. Kindly furnished by Mr. Edward Walker, publisher of "Dowling's Uisiory of Romanism."

Some of the Huguenot families of New Rochelle appear to

* Sketch of the Huguenots by Mr. G. P. Disosway. See Christian Intelligencer.

t There is an original medal in the possession of the Rev. S. Farmar Jarvis, D. D. L. Ij. D., of Middletown, Connecticut ; who obtained it at the mint in Rome. Elec* trotype copies of this medal are very numerous.

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