When Anne Audubert was tied to be burned at the stake for being a Protestant (1550 in Orleans, France) she said "Lord God! What a fine belt my betrothed has given me." A Catholic (Florimond de Raemond) wrote of the Protestants who were burned at the time "Because they saw innocent, weak women submit to torture so as to bear witness to their faith, facing death calling out only to Christ, and chanting various Psalms....they were like rocks standing against the waves of sorrow, in short they died smiling."
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34
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