Henry Woodhead on Pope Innocent X's objection to the Peace of Westphalia, on a Lutheran priest's opposition to the Peace, and on the reprimand he got from Kristina

Source:

Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden, volume 1, page 246, by Henry Woodhead, 1863; original at the University of Michigan

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The account:

Innocent X. protested against the termination of one of the most horrible wars that had ever afflicted mankind, and he fulminated a Bull against the heretics who were put in possession of the "patrimony of the Church." The heretics despised his impotent malice, and the Bull was annulled by the orthodox Emperor.

The Lutheran intolerance was equally fierce. A priest at Stockholm declaimed furiously against the peace from his pulpit.

He urged his congregation not to acquiesce in it, but to cherish in their hearts a perpetual hatred against those who dared to call them heretics.

He received such a stern reprimand from Christina as almost made him lose his wits, for he denied having used the expressions which drew down her anger, although they had been heard by four thousand people.

Above: Kristina.

Above: Pope Innocent X.