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Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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TY KING.Charles IX. after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. 401 402 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. with a garrison of a thousand and its citizens, withstood a large army forfour months. It was blockaded by sea and land; the besiegers, led by Anjouand nearly all the Catholic nobles, made twenty-nine assaults, dug seventymines, and fired thirty-five thousand cannon-balls at the town, but all in vain.Inspired by theirministers and val-iantly helped by theirwives and daughters,•the burghers shoutedout Clement Marotspsalms and repelledevery attack.Among theirprisoners wasCosseins, thecaptain of theguard whohad broken inColignys doorand killed theporter; theyput him todeath. TheDuke DAu-male was shotin the tren-ches; Anjou,busy with hisschemes onthe throne ofPoland, ne-glected hisduty. A pes-tilence brokeout among thetroops, whichis said to have carried off charges ix. and his mother. near thirty thousand of them, while twelve thousand fell in the fight. It wasa costly and a useless siege.
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■ THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 403 SIEGE OF SANCERRE. Still more memorable is the defense of Sancerre. It was a small place,poorly fortified arid ill supplied; but its heroic citizens held out for ten monthsagainst five thousand regular soldiers. The provisions gave out; from half apound of bread a day they were reduced to a pound a week. When all the do-mestic animals had been eaten, they hunted for rats and mice. Their minister,who had been through a famine at sea, taught them to soak and chew strips ofleather. After these were gone, books, papers, parchments, were used. I haveseen them eagerly consumed, he testified, when the writing could still be readdistinctly on the fragments served up in the dish. Nearly all the young childrendied, but the sentiments of honor and decency survived. Some famished wretcheswho were caught feeding on their offspring were publicly executed. To eighty-four men who were killed by the enemy, five hundred died of starvation. Butthere was no thought

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