Clement VI defends Jews against pogroms
September 1348
As panicked Christians blamed Jews for poisoning wells and lit pyres from Strasbourg to Barcelona, the Avignon pope issued bulls forbidding their persecution. He reminded the faithful that Jews were dying of the plague too. The pyres burned anyway. Tens of thousands of European Jews were massacred during the pandemic.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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