Massacre of 1589 (Étrelles)

Window massacre of 1589 in Étrelles

The 1589 massacre is the title of a window motif in the church of St-Pierre-St-Paul in Étrelles , a French commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany , created at the end of the 19th century. The round stained glass window was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1981 as Monument historique .

The window above the southern entrance, donated by Th. Hévin (pastor in Étrelles from 1882 to 1891) (see inscription below), shows a scene from the end of the Huguenot Wars .

The inscription at the top of the picture reads:

"On 21 Nov. 1589 après 13 heures de siège l'église d'Étrelles fut pillée par les Huguenots
et son curé Dom Jullien Caillel fut tué avec 110 paroissiens."

(On November 21, 1589, after a 13-hour siege, the church of Étrelles was sacked by the Huguenots,
and its pastor Dom Jullien Caillel and 110 parishioners were killed.)

The window shows in the foreground how the Catholic priest is murdered by Huguenots , behind it the burning place and the destroyed church can be seen.

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Ille-et-Vilaine. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-84234-072-8 , p. 94.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scènes des Guerres de religion in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 33.6 "  N , 1 ° 11 ′ 33.4"  W.