Milestones in Christian history

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64 g Christians set fire to Rome. Later, the Christians blamed the emperor Nero for this atrocity.

301-302 Gregory Proselit, who later began to be called "the enlightener of Armenia", during a natural disaster, taking advantage of Eastern superstition, managed to baptize and convert to Christianity the king of Armenia Tridates III (the Great). Tridates, inspired by the speeches of the prophet Elijah (Elijah, "My God and Jehovah") on Mount Carmillion, ordered a mass slaughter of pagan priests and turned all the temples of Anahitis, Mithras, Ormuzd and the Greek and Roman gods into Christian churches or houses for reading Christian sermons. All the magnificent libraries of Armenia, collected over the centuries by the Hellenistic sovereigns, were burned "because of demonic knowledge."

309g. To show their strength, the most courageous Christians burned down the temple of the goddess Fortune.

313g. Bishop Irenaeus, however, declared: "Christians do not need laws, because they are above laws." Saint Anthony the Great, the founder of monasticism, openly instigates the immediate suppression of the pagan world … by fire.

314g. Immediately after its full legalization by the Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Constantine, the Christian Church begins an attack on the pagan religion: the Synod in Ankara slanders the cult of the goddess Diana (Artemis), accusing it … of witchcraft and adoration of Christian Satan.

319g. Constantine issues a decree according to which the Church is completely exempted from paying taxes, and Christian clergy are exempted from military service.

324g. Emperor Constantine declares Christianity to be the only official cult of the empire. He gives up the temple of the oracle of Apollo in the city of Didyma in Asia Minor for plunder, tortures all the priests and kills them, accusing them of high treason. Suddenly, he persecutes the pagans on the sacred mountain of Athos and destroys all temples and sanctuaries.

326g. At the instigation of his mother Helena, who is considered a Christian saint, Emperor Constantine kills his first wife Fausta. Elena goes with her "spiritual mentors" to Jerusalem, where, despite the fact that Jewish legislation provided for the burning of all crosses without exception after the execution of criminals on them, Elena - as Christian literature asserts without a shadow of doubt 114 years later, ("opened") (of course, with the help of … Jewish rabbis, who intended to seriously cash in on the plundering of Hellenic temple treasures accumulated over one and a half thousand years) untouched (whole) so-called "holy cross", on which Yeshua was allegedly crucified, according to the traditional Christian version of events … At Elena's instructions, her son demolishes the temple of the god of medicine Aesculapius at Aiges in Silicia and erects Christian churches with the help of his columns. In addition, they destroy the Temple of Venus in Jerusalem, since it was allegedly built on the site of the hypothetical tomb of Rabbi Yeshua; he also destroys other temples to this goddess, such as Apake, Mambra, Phoenician, Baalbek (Ioiopoli), etc.

330g. Christians plunder and set fire to the sanctuary of the Roman god Apollo in Bayah and lynch his priests. On the date indicated by astrologers (May 11, "The sun is near Sagittarius with the influence of Cancer, therefore the city is religious"), Constantine transfers the capital of the Roman Empire to the city of Constantinople, which he founded, which he decorates by plundering pagan sanctuaries and temples for this.

335g. The inauguration of the church … "the holy grave (Holy Sepulcher)", built on the site of the ruins of the temple of Venus (Aphrodite) in 326-327. For the sake of its decoration, all pagan sanctuaries and temples in Palestine and Asia Minor were plundered. By special imperial order, all "oracles and accused of magic" were crucified on the cross as … the culprits of the bad harvest this year. Together with them was tortured Sopatra, the neoplatonic philosopher, who personally tried to convince Constantine to return to paganism in the way laid by philosophy, and aroused the hatred of Christians who visited his court.

337g. The dying Constantine was baptized by the Arian bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia. Many years later, the church recognized him and his mother as saints, and they began to be called “Saint Constantine” and “Saint Helena”.

341g. Emperor Flavius Julius Costanz (son of Constantine) announced persecutions against "all soothsayers and adherents of Hellenism." Many pagans were imprisoned or executed.

346g. Large-scale persecution of pagans is declared in Constantinople. The famous orator Liban was expelled, accused of practicing magic.

353g. Constance introduced the death penalty by edict for all who worship in any way using sacrifices

354g. With a new edict, Constance repeats the prohibition of all cults using sacrifices and statues and again approves the death penalty for this worship and orders all pagan sanctuaries to be sealed and desecrated by giving them over to gambling and prostitutes, i.e. turn them into gambling houses and brothels. The Roman bishop of Liberius decides to celebrate Yeshua's birthday on December 25, the day when the pagans celebrated the birth of the Invincible Sun.

361-363 Emperor Flavius Claudius Julian, who entered Constantinople on December 11, 361, declared complete religious tolerance. George Natsiancinos (Invectives (Abusive Speeches) against Julian, I 58-61) protests, declaring that by doing so Christians were deprived of … the joy of great martyrdom.

363g. Julian orders to eliminate in the temple of Apollo in Daphne in Antioch miasma (harmful vapors) from the remains of St. communion ). Christians set fire to the temple after taking away the remains. On June 26, Julian was savagely killed by a Christian from his retinue while fighting the Persians.

364g. The new emperor Jovian Flavius ordered the burning of the library in Antioch.

364g. 11 September an imperial decree is issued, prohibiting the pagan cult on pain of death. To the set of tortures that pagans are subjected to, is added the crushing of the ribs with iron hooks. Examination of the intestines in the womb is punishable by death ("to forever get rid of curiosity in connection with predictions"). Three decrees dated February 4, September 9 and December 23 confiscate the property of the pagan sanctuaries, which were restored under Julian, and again private individuals are prohibited from performing rituals, making sacrifices and singing songs (meaning ritual ones). The Synod at Laodesea recommends the death penalty for astrologers and Christians who celebrate the Sabbath.

365g. An imperial decree of November 17 prohibits pagan officers from commanding Christian soldiers. The pagan Vesius Agorius Pretextatus rebuilds in Rome at his own expense (despite the Pope's protest) the sanctuary of the Twelve Olympian Gods.

370g. Emperor Valens “breaks loose” by launching a large-scale persecution of pagans throughout the eastern part of the empire with an epicenter in Antioch (as a result of which ex-governor Fidustius and the priests Hilarius, Patricius and others were tortured to death). A huge number of books were burned in the squares, and thousands of innocent people were tortured and killed, who simply refused to betray the traditions of their ancestors. All of Julian's famous collaborators (Orebasius, Salustius, Pegasius and others) were among the victims of the persecution. After monstrous tortures, the philosopher Simonides was burned alive at the stake, and on March 12 the head of the philosopher Maxim was cut off.

370-371yy. The Western emperor Valens, who hated the well-dressed, cultured, wealthy, and nobility (as emphasized by the historian Marcellinus Amianus Marcellinus), “breaks loose” by launching a persecution against the Roman pagans. Thousands of people were exiled, tortured or killed, and all their property was confiscated and given to the church.

372g. Gripped by a hysterical fear of magic, the emperor Valens allows the governor of Asia Fistus to exterminate all the pagans and destroy their labors. People in fear began to burn their libraries to the ground in order to avoid danger. Others were handed over to the executioners.

375g. "Saint" Martin completes the destruction of pagan temples in Galatia and builds monasteries on their ruins. The Christians of the Eastern Empire seal the sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidavros and fine / punish any signs associated with the local cult, including theatrical performances.

376g. The indecisive Western Emperor Gratian authorizes the Christian community of Rome to destroy many of the sanctuaries of Mithras and the traditional sanctuaries of the pagan cult in the "eternal city", abolishes the tax exemption of real estate that belonged to the "pagan" priests, prohibits the transfer of new property to them and confiscates all their movable property. Under the leadership of Bishop Ambrosius of Damascus, he orders the removal of the Altar of Victory from the hall where the Senate, which Julian returned there, is to be removed; in addition, he renounces the title of "Chief Pontiff" because he was "pagan." This title was then awarded to the Bishop of Damascus and later passed on to the Pope.

385g. In Trier, Germany, the first Christians, the Spaniard Priscilian and six of his followers, were beheaded for heresy.

391 BC Rome. Emperor Theodosius I prohibits all pagan cults. In the same year, on his order, the Delphic Temple was destroyed.

392 BC Rome. Theodosius I issues a decree on the closure of all pagan temples. Some of them must be completely destroyed. Pagans are excluded from the army, government and justice.

394 BC Theodosius bans the Olympic Games.

405 BC By order of Stilicho Flavius, Christians burn Sibylline books.

409 BC The emperors Honorius and Theodosius II issued a law according to which mathematics and astronomy were considered witchcraft.

415g. In Alexandria, Egypt, a little after Easter, the bishop and future Christian Saint Cyril incites a crowd of Christians to the monstrous murder of the famous and beautiful woman mathematician, writer and philosopher Hypatia, who runs the famous Alexandrian library. Hypatia - this outstanding woman - owns the invention of the hydrometer.. She was brought to the Patriarchal Church of St. Michael, where Christians … tore her into pieces, which, after they turned them around in a procession along the city street, burned them at last on a huge bonfire along with all her written works near Kynaron. After the murder of Hypatia, Christians destroy the library itself. On August 30, a new order was issued to arrest and crucify on crosses or burn alive all the pagan priests of North Africa.

What is most interesting, in the 10th century, the lives of St. Catherine of Alexandria will appear, very similar to the life of Hypatia. Only with the difference that Catherine was torn to pieces by the pagans, what hypocrisy!

415g. Bishop Cyril of Alexandria distributed the property of the Jews to a crowd of Christians. By his decrees, Theodosius II forbade Jews to build synagogues and act as judges in cases in which Christians participated, as well as to own Christian slaves. Under this emperor, the physician Gamaliel VI was the last Jewish patriarch. In 415. Theodosius annulled his powers, leaving only the title to him until his death in 426.

429g. The primates (church leaders) were ordered to transfer the taxes of the Jews directly to the treasury.

438 BC Rome. A law enters into force, which provides for the death penalty for pagans.

408-450gg. The Christian emperor Theodosius II (408-450) even executed children for playing with the fragments of pagan statues.

448g. Not being able to defeat Neoplatonism as a result of philosophical discussion, Christians did not find a better way out of this situation than to burn all copies of the critical treatise of Porfiry (Plotinus' disciple) "Against Christians" discovered and confiscated from Roman citizens.

451 BC Rome. The death penalty is also introduced for those who provide their homes to pagans for the performance of pagan cults.

529g. Emperor Justinian by edict closes the Academy in Athens and confiscates its property. The last seven teachers take refuge with the Persian king Khosroi, who provides them with chairs at the University of Yundishapur.

562g. Justinian gives three months to the pagan Greeks in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople to renounce the cult of the fathers (paganism), and this is followed by the fury of the crowd, arrests, ridicule and mockery, torture, imprisonment and the death penalty of the pagans. On the square of Kinigui ("The Hunt") in Constantinople, thousands of books and many privately owned statues are burned on huge bonfires. Craftsmen and families are held accountable for the religious beliefs of their members. As well as the masters for the religious beliefs of their slaves.

590g. Throughout the Eastern Empire (Byzantium), Christian spies constantly inform on the "open" pagan plots. New executions in the form of impalement, crucifixion and head beheading. Pope Gregory, who received the nickname the Great (590-604), sat on the papal throne, and a little later he will burn the library from the Palatine Hill of Apollo, founded by Octavian Augustus himself, since "the wisdom of others contained in it should not prevent the faithful from entering the kingdom of heaven." …

719 BC Pope Gregor entrusts Bishop (Bishop) Boniface with missionary work among the Germanic tribes.

723 g … Boniface cuts down with his own hands the famous shrine of the Germans - the Oak of Donar (the god Thor) in the Land of Hesse and builds a chapel out of it.

956-986 biennium Harald Blue-toothed by force tries to introduce Christianity in Denmark, up to 960 the same is done by Gakon the Good and Tryggvi, the father of Olaf the Saint in Norway ("Saga of the Yom Vikings").

988 BC Book. Saint Vladimir (Basil: the name given at baptism) - the idols of Veles and Uslada were exterminated, the idol of Perun was beaten with sticks and dragged across Kiev, the idols of Khors, Stribog, Simargl, Mokosh, Dazhdbog were destroyed. “And whoever does not come will be disgusting to me,” said Vladimir. Russia was baptized in a bloody font illuminated by the glow of conflagrations.

989-990 “Holy Prince Vladimir” in the process of baptism perpetrated a massacre in Novgorod. Prince Vladimir, during the conquest and baptism of the White Croats, destroyed dozens of cities and villages. The establishment of the “Church Rite of St. Vladimir , which prescribed the burning of the Magi.

995-1002 Olaf Trygvasson begins the introduction of Christianity in Norway, desecrates the temple of Thor ("The Saga of Olaf Trygvasson").

1008 BC The sacred grove (Svyatobor) of sorbs near Merseburg was destroyed by the Bishop of Merseburg ("Wagner's discourse on the idolatry of the ancient inhabitants of Misnia", Leipzig, 1698)

1018 BC Fire in Kiev. Christians, attributing it to evil sorcery, ruthlessly kill many old women, imaginary sorceresses.

1022 BC In Orleans, ten Cathars were burned, betrayed by their disciples; among them were the confessor of King Robert I, Etienne, the scholastic Liza, and the chaplain Heribert.

1063-1157 The Radegast temple (Retrinsky Temple) in Retra city on the land of the retar lutichi was repeatedly burned. Last time by the German Emperor Lothar. Melted bronze idols of lutichi, 85 pieces from the Temple, were found at the beginning of the 18th century and described in 1774-1795. Many figurines contain Slavic runic inscriptions, as on the Mikorzyn stones (Poland, Poznan Voivodeship).

1069-76 g. "Suppression" of the Slavic-Finnish pagans of Beloozero by Yan Vyshatich. "The Tale of Bygone Years" and the Chronicler of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky. At the same time, Prince Gleb Svyatoslavich and Bishop Fyodor perpetrate a massacre (genocide) of pagans in Novgorod.

1071 BC “… Two Magi rebelled near Yaroslavl … And they came to Belozero, and there were 300 people with them. At that time it happened to come from Svyatoslav Collecting tribute Yan, the son of Vyshatin … Yan ordered to beat them and pull out their beards. When they were beaten and torn out with a split beard, Yan asked them: "What do the Gods say to you?" And Yan told them: "They told you the truth" … And seizing them, killed and hung them on an oak "(Laurentian Chronicle).

1091 BC Suppression of the Magi in Rostov ("the sorcerer of death soon") - PSRL I-75-78, 92 and Pereyaslavsky Chronicler.

1168 BC After the capture of the island of Ruyan (Rügen, Germany) by the Danish king Valdemar I, the Sventovita temple (Arkona) was desecrated and plundered. The idol of Sventovit, along with other images of pagan idols, was exterminated by Bishop Absalon (Helmgold "Slavic Chronicle". Until 1177).

1169 g. Saint Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky burned Kiev.

1206 BC The idol of Mokosha was destroyed at the Torgue in Novgorod and the church of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was erected.

1210 BC France Paris. Fourteen Amalrikians were burned alive, claiming the unity of God and the world.

1214 BC Paris. After a trial by Chancellor Guillaume Nogaret, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar Jacques Molet and other knights were burned.

1215 BC France Paris. Two lecturers from the Sorbonne University, Almaric Bene, and the scholastic philosopher David of Dinan were burned to death.

1227 BC Novgorod, four wise men were brought to the bishop's court and there they were burned: “four wise men were consumed in the Yaroslavl court” with the permission of the archbishop. Nikonovskaya Chronicle, v. 10, St. Petersburg, 1862: “Magi, sorcerers, connoisseurs appeared in Novgorod, and many sorceries, and indulgences, and signs worked. The people of Novgorod caught them and brought the Magi to the court of the husbands of Prince Yaroslav, and tied the Magi all, and threw them into the fire, and then they all burned down."

1239 BC In Mont-Aim, near Chalon on the Marne, the inquisitor Robert Le Bouguere burned 182 Cathars.

1250s Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky perpetrated a massacre in Novgorod (and this is not a battlefield, this is the murder of civilians, civilians).

1252 BC Bull Innocent IV "ad exstirpenda" (about extermination) on the introduction of torture to obtain a confession.

1285 BC A feeding book. "To excommunicate those who go to the Magi and the Merchants."

End of the XIII century. Justifying the practice of bloody reprisals against dissidents and those who resist, the hierarchs of the Orthodox Church willingly referred to the activities of biblical characters.

So, Vladimir Bishop Serapion at the end of the XIII century, calling for reprisals against "sorcerers" and "witches", pointed to the example of the Prophet and King David in Jerusalem, who eradicated "all those who commit lawlessness: some by murder, some by imprisonment, and others by imprisonment in prison”[E. Petukhov, Serapion Vladimirsky, Russian preacher of the XIII century, St. Petersburg 1888, p. 65.].

Have church leaders seen that the extermination of people is contrary to some of the provisions of the gospel preaching? They could not help but see this, but they remembered about the gospel mercy only when it was beneficial to them.

1327 BC Italy, Florence. The Inquisition accuses of witchcraft and sends to the fire Cecco Ascoli (Francesco Stabili) - a famous Italian doctor, physicist, mathematician and astrologer.

1375 BC Novgorod. Execution of the heretics-strigolniki.

1411 g. Pskov. 12 "prophetic women" (witches, witches) were burnt.

1462 g. John Mozhaisky, having condemned the boyar Andrei Dmitrievich to death, popularly burned him at the stake with his wife for imaginary magic.

1471-1484 Rome. Pope Sixtus IV, following the Judeo-Christian tradition, destroys the remains of the Temple of Hercules (Hercules Invictis).

1484 g. Bull of Inocentia VIII, 100 thousand people were convicted.

1485 g. Piedmont. 41 "witches" were burned.

1490 g. The council demanded the death penalty for heretics, Ivan III prevented it.

1499 g. The book "The Teaching of the Clergy". Against paganism, so that they do not accept offerings from a sorcerer, a supporter, a gamer (buffoon) into the temple, under the threat of renunciation of the church.

XV century The bishop of Novgorod writes to Metropolitan Zosima: “Ano Fryazov, by their faith, are holding a fortress! The Tsar's ambassador told me about the King of Spain, how he cleared his land, and I sent those speeches and the list to you - they take envy, and I want to learn from the experience of the Inquisition …

1504 g. By order of the Moscow Metropolitan Daniel, Prince Lukomsky was burned for reading foreign books in Moscow, Ivan Volkov, Mikhail Konoplev, Ivan Maksimov were burned like heretics, and Nekras Rukavov in Novgorod. Later, their fate was shared by Metropolitan Kassian of Yuryev.

1505 BC The teachings against paganism in the "Letter of Metropolitans Photius and Daniel", "Domostroy" and "Stoglav" prescribe the punishment of the Magi and those who know the magicians.

1515 g. More than 500 witches were burned and destroyed.

1551 g. The hundred-headed cathedral forbade the study of a number of sciences, including astronomy.

1551 g. Ivan the Terrible writes to Metropolitan Macarius: “They got tonsured as monks for the sake of bodily rest, so that they could always be fidgeting. Immeasurable drunkenness, debauchery, sin of Sodom. Hermitage fathers walk around with icons, allegedly collecting money for the construction of a monastery, but in fact, in order to drink them on drink."

All this priesthood existed at the expense of the labor of the Russian serf. About 80,000 serfs worked at the Trinity-Sergius Monastery alone.

1552 g. Teachings against paganism in the "Code of Laws".

1554 g. They burned Matvey Bashkin, who preached that slavery is incompatible with Christianity.

1564 g. Ivan IV, letter to Kurbsky: "Nowhere do you rite not to ruin the kingdom, hedgehog from the priests to Vlad."

1568 g. At the instigation of the clergy, the first Russian printing house was destroyed, and the smerd Nikitka, who invented the aircraft, was burned "for collaboration with evil spirits."

1570 g. Rome. The Italian reformer and poet Anton Della Paglia is burned at the stake by the Inquisition.

1584 g. The extremely pious sovereign Fyodor Ioannovich ascended the throne.

1586 g. The Russian Church was headed by a certain Job (canonized), who in one of his works approved the execution of pagan priests. As far as can be judged from the sources that have come down, in the time of Job, burning became a common execution. The English envoy Fletcher, who lived in Moscow from 1588-25-11 to 1589-06-05, describes one of the burnings of heretics as an eyewitness: … husband and wife … were burned in Moscow, in a small house that was set on fire on purpose. Their guilt remained a secret, but it is likely that they were punished for some kind of religious truth, although the priests and monks assured the people that these people were evil and damned heretics.

The reliability of Fletcher's message is confirmed by the description of the method of execution - burning in a log house, often mentioned in Russian documents of the 17th century, but unusual for other countries. If for six months only in Moscow Fletcher managed to witness the burning of two people, then there is reason to believe that there were much more such burnings.

1600 BC The great Italian scientist and educator Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake of the Inquisition. Not for the statement that the earth is round, but for the propaganda of the ideas of polygenism. About some human races, he wrote: "These from the" new earth "do not at all form part of the human race, for they are not people, although they are very similar to them in their members, figure and brains." "… No reasonable person will lead the Ethiopians out of the same protoplasm as the Jews."

1601-1603 During a terrible famine, the Metropolitan, having full grain barns, held back his stocks, waiting for prices to rise even higher.

1616 g. The Church forbids the works of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

1619 g. Toulouse. By order of the church, the Italian philosopher Vanini was burned. First, they cut off his tongue so that he could not address the people. Since the philosopher intended to continue writing, it was decided to burn Vanini alive. In his Dialogues, Vanini recalled ancient hypotheses, the natural origin of man and the assertions of atheists that the Ethiopians descended from monkeys, that the first people walked on all fours like animals, and that there is a kind of hierarchy of beings in nature, from the lowest to the highest.

1622 g. Germany, Heidelberg. By order of the Catholic Church, all books were removed from the Heidelberg University library to Rome.

1633 g. The Inquisition forces the Italian mathematician, philosopher and physicist Galileo Galilei to abandon "their delusions".

1640 g. Christian bigots from the group of "devotees of piety" prompted the young Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich to issue a decree against the buffoons.“In Moscow alone, dozens of carts were stuffed with musical instruments taken away from boyars, nobles, and the houses of the townspeople. And they burned, burned, burned."

1648 g. The decree of the Christian monarch Alexei Mikhailovich on the prohibition of songs, holidays, dances, games. It is forbidden even to swing on a swing (!). It is forbidden to bury the fallen soldiers in the mountains (mounds) and hold a funeral feast (commemoration with a feast). The decree mentioned the dangers of buffoons, it was ordered to break pipes, gusli, etc., and those who follow the buffoons (imitate, mumble) were prescribed batogs and exile.

1654-1659 Schism in the Russian Christian Church. Persecution of Old Believers. At the instigation of Nikon and the orders of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Christians of the new rite perform the following acts:

• Killed Protopop Danila of Kostroma, priest Mikhail of Volzhsky
• Priest Gabriel was beheaded in Nizhny Novgorod
• Elder Jonah of Kazan was cut into five parts in the Kola prison
• In Kholmogory they burned the priest Polievkt and fourteen people with him
• Many people were burned in Nizhny
• In Kazan - 30 people
• In Kiev - Sagittarius Hilarion
• And those living on the Volga, in cities, villages and villages, were laid on a sword in thousands

The founder of the Old Believers, Archpriest Avvakum, for example, protested against the persecution that his followers were subjected to, precisely on the basis that the New Testament did not recommend doing so. “With fire, yes with a whip,” he angrily asked his tormentors, “yes, they want to establish faith with the gallows! Which apostles taught this way? " ["Life of Archpriest Avvakum", M. 1934, p. 137]. But he himself lasciviously dreams of how he would deal with his opponents, if he was able to: “And what, Tsar, how would you give me freedom, I would, like Elijah the prophet, put them all into one day … First, Nikon, the dog, would be cut in four, and then those Nikonians”[“Life of Archpriest Avvakum”, p. 301]. The matter ended with Habakkuk being burned. There is no doubt that if he had the upper hand, he would have burned his opponents with the same zeal - and also in the name of piety based on the teachings and examples of the Old and New Testaments. ["Books and Bibles" by IA Kryvlev]. Even towards Christians, but there was no other direction of patience, they killed everyone.

1666 g. After the decisions of the cathedral, the unrepentant remnants of the strigolniki of the Solovetsky Monastery were executed at the insistence of Patriarch Joachim (more than 50 people).

1676 g. After a nine-year siege of Kinovia, the Solovetsky governor, John Meshchersky, burst into the settlement and brutally exterminated up to 500 people (… and with all different deaths he wrote down the cup of suffering, like the beneficent classes with the sharpest torment of the sickle to reap the sickle, and imprinted the ancient church tradition with his blood).

1682 g. In a wooden blockhouse, they burned: Archpriest Avvakum, together with his wife Anastasia and children, Priest Lazar Romanovsky, who underwent a double cutting of his tongue and truncation of the right hand (right hand), Deacon Theodore of the Annunciation Cathedral, who also underwent double cutting of his tongue and cutting off of his right hand, as well as the monk Epiphanius.

1684 g. Joachim's decree: torture schismatics; if they do not submit, execute them by burning. Execution for harboring was also foreseen.

1716 g. Double taxes have been introduced for Old Believers; since 1726 - quads.

1721 g. a decree of the Synod was issued, according to which "diocesan inquisitors" were introduced in each Russian diocese, and "proto-inquisitors" were placed over them. The ROC carried out its inquisitorial activities through judicial bodies at the disposal of diocesan bishops, through the patriarchal court and church councils. It also possessed special bodies created to investigate cases against religion and the Church: the Order of Spiritual Affairs, the Order of Inquisitorial Affairs, Schismatic and New Baptismal Offices, etc.

After this time, crimes against faith were condemned like criminal ones through the judiciary. Therefore, many victims should be looked for in any court documents of that time, which is very difficult.

1728 g. The theological treatise "The Stone of Faith" by Stefan Yavorsky was published. "It is worthy and righteous to kill heretics, it is useful for a heretic to die, and a good deed happens when he is killed."

The ecclesiastical ideologist of those times, Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894), later recognized as a saint by the ROC, wrote to the authorities: “We need to stop freedom of ideas - to shut the mouth of journalists and newspapermen! To declare disbelief a state crime. Prohibit material views on death row!"

In the period 1800-1905, various repressions against the Old Believers and several Jewish pogroms can be distinguished from the events.

1905 Metropolitan Vladimir and Bishop Nikon of Serpukhov concocted a "lesson" that was to be read on October 16 in all churches, where everyone was called to "wake up and rise up" against the "monsters of the human race", even if they had to "die for the Tsar and for Russia" … This was followed by a series of pogroms.

This is not a complete list of church affairs, but rather informative and important.

And it is important because it shows that there is nothing good in religious fanaticism.