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The Huguenots Who Fled by Starlight

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In October 1685, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, stripping French Protestants of every legal protection overnight. Soldiers ransacked churches. Children were seized...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 2:13-23.

In October 1685, King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, stripping French Protestants of every legal protection overnight. Soldiers ransacked churches. Children were seized to be raised Catholic. Pastors faced execution if they did not leave within fifteen days. Under cover of darkness, hundreds of thousands of Huguenot families gathered what they could carry and slipped across borders into Switzerland, Prussia, the Netherlands, and beyond.…

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Matthew 2:13-23

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