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“1171. Blois, France. At Passover, a Christian child was crucified, his body drained of blood and thrown into the river. A number of jews were executed.

“1179. A boy named Richard was tortured, crucified and bled white. Philip Augustus’s chaplains and historians, Rigord and Guillaume l’Armoricain, attested this case.

“1235. Fulda, Hesse-Nassau. Five children murdered; jews confessed under torture, but said the blood was wanted for healing purposes. Frederick II exonerated the jews from suspicion, but the Crusaders had already dealt with a number by putting them to death.

“1247. Valreas, France. Just before Easter, a two-year-old girl’s body was found in the town moat with wounds on forehead, hands and feet. jews confessed under torture that they wanted the blood of the child, but did not say that it was for ceremonial purposes. Pope Innocent IV said that three of the jews were executed without confessing.

“1250. Saragossa. A boy crucified, afterwards canonised as St. Dominiculus. Pius VII, 24th Nov., 1805, confirmed a decree of the Congregation of Rites of 31st August, according this canonisation.

“1261. Pforzheim, Baden. An old woman sold a seven-year-old girl to the jews, who bled her, strangled her and threw the body into the river. The old woman was convicted on the evidence of her own daughter. A number of jews were condemned to death, two committing suicide.

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“1287. Berne. Rudolf, a boy, was murdered at Passover in the house of a rich jew called Matler. jews confessed that he had been crucified; many were put to death. The boy was canonised as a martyr, and his name can be found in several martyrologies. A stone monument still exists in Berne commemorating the crime – The Fountain of the Child-Devourer, and is now on the Kornhausplatz.

“1288. Troyes, France. Some jews were tried for a ritual murder and 13 were executed by burning.

“1286. Oberwesel, on the Rhine. A boy named Werner was tortured for three days at Passover, hanged by the legs and bled white. The body was found in the river. This boy was beatified in the diocese of Treves, and his anniversary is on 19th April. A sculptured representation of this ritual murder is still to be seen in the Oberwesel Church.

“1462. Rinn, Innsbruck. A boy called Andreas Oxner was bought by the jews and sacrificed for his blood on a stone in the forest. The body was found by his mother in a birch-tree. No jew was apprehended because, the border being near, they had fled when the crime was made known.

“1462 in the village of Rinn, in the Diocese of Brixen, in the person of the Blessed Andreas, a boy barbarously murdered by the jews in hatred of the faith of Jesus Christ.” No one questions the historical occurrence of this case. An engraving on wood representing the Ritual Murder still exists in the church.

“1468. Sepulveda, Segovia, Spain. The jews sacrificed a Christian child on a cross. The Bishop of Segovia investigated the crime, and ordered the culprits to Segovia, where they were executed. It is important to know that this Bishop was himself son of a converted jew; Jean d’Avila was his name.

“1475. A three-year-old boy named Simon disappeared in the Italian town of Trent; the circumstances were such that suspicion fell upon the jews. About seven jews were arrested; they were tortured and confessed that the boy had been ritually murdered for the purpose of obtaining Christian blood to mix with the ceremonial unleavened bread; these confessions were made separately and agreed in all essential details. The jews were tried and were ultimately executed.

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“1480. Venice. This case, as admitted in the jewish Encyclopædia, 1906, Vol. XII, p. 410, was settled by trial. Three jews were executed.

“1485. Padua, Italy. The victim in this case was canonised as St. Lorenzino, Pope Benedict XIV mentioning him as a martyr in his Bull Beatus Andreas. This case was attested by the Episcopal Court of Padua.

“1494. Tyrnau, Hungary. A boy was bled white and killed. The jew culprits were betrayed by the confession of women, who were persuaded to do so by the sight of some instruments of torture, which however were not applied to them. The jews, arrested after this confession, themselves confessed that this was the fourth child they had killed for the blood, but they said they wanted this for medical purposes.

“1510. Brandenberg. Several jews were accused in Berlin of buying a small Christian boy, bleeding him and killing him. They confessed, and 41 were executed.”

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