The 7th century holocaust of more than 60,000 Jerusalem Christians by anti-christ Jews with the aid of their Persian proxy army. Christians were killed in the most beastly, savage of ways in this holocaust, including the much attested to act of Jewish ritual murder. Antiochus Strategos, a 7th-century monk in Palestine, relates that shortly after the Persian army entered Jerusalem in 614, unprecedented looting and sacrilege took place. Church after church was burned down alongside the innumerable Christian artifacts, which were stolen or damaged by the ensuing arson. Khosrau II generally practiced religious tolerance and did deem Christians respectfully but, at the Jews behest, helped facilitate a great slaughter and pillage of the Christian populace in Jerusalem. Accounts from early Christian chroniclers suggest that 26,000 Jewish rebels entered the streets of the city. Some Jerusalem Christians were taken captive, gathered together and murdered in mass by Jews. Antiochus Strategos writes that captive Christians were gathered near Mamilla reservoir and the Jews offered to help them escape death if they become Jews and deny Christ. The Christian captives refused, and the Jews in anger purchased the Christians from Persians and massacred them on spot. Antiochus writes: Then the Jews... as of old they bought the Lord from the Jews with silver, so they purchased Christians out of the reservoir; for they gave the Persians silver, and they bought a Christian and slew him like a sheep (Jewish Ritual Murder). According to Antiochus, the total Christian death toll was 66,509, of which 24,518 corpses were found at Mamilla, many more than were found anywhere else in the city.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:03:23 +0000
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