The Pope struck a medal to celebrate the 1572 massacre of Huguenots on this saint's day
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there in 1572, and in none of the accounts of the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew 
sent ... for several days more, and on 25 August Ramus, the celebrated 
philosopher, ..... a medal struck representing an exterminating angel smiting the 
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Charlemagne) had given the Papal States to the Pope almost 1000 years earlier.