The Hymn Singers on the Galley Ships
In 1686, after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of French Huguenots were arrested for refusing to abandon their Protestant faith. Hundreds were...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14.
In 1686, after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, thousands of French Huguenots were arrested for refusing to abandon their Protestant faith. Hundreds were chained to the oars of Mediterranean galley ships, sentenced to row until they died. Among them was Jean Marteilhe, a young man from Bergerac who later recorded what happened in those floating prisons. The guards expected broken men.…
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