You loosen the yoke of old age by the will of God, "Nothing is better than death, nothing is worse than an unjust life.ĭeath, the best for men, the everlasting rest from labors, Some said that the Jews increased this calamity by poisoning the wells." Many cities, towns, marts and villages died out entirely and remained void. In some regions only about one third of the population escaped. The mortality was so rapid and great that barely ten persons out of every thousand survived. It started in India and spread as far as England, ravaging Italy and France, and finally Germany and Hungary. It resulted from the aforesaid locusts or vermin. 1348, all the Jews in Germany were burned, having been accused of poisoning the wells, as many of them confessed.Īt this time locusts and vermin passed through the sky from east to west like a thick cloud, devastating all vegetation and fruits and after they were dispersed the stench caused a horrible pestilence.Ī pitiful and lamentable pestilence began in the year 1348 and endured for three years throughout the world. And this same Host, being present at the Holy Sepulchre, is venerated for its many miracles. When this became known, the Jews were seized by Hartmann von Degenberg, the caretaker, and the citizens and when the truth was established, they were deservedly condemned to death. They then threw it into a hot oven, and as it remained unconsumed, they finally placed it on an anvil and struck it with hammers. 1337, at Deckendorf, on the Danube, in Bavaria, in scorn and ignominy of the divine majesty and high veneration paid to our Lord Jesus Christ and to the holy Christian religion, stabbed the Holy Sacrament many times. Jews were perceived as being less susceptible to the plague than their neighbours (likely the result of Jewish ritual regarding personal hygiene) and they were accused of poisoning Christian wells: thought to be the source of the plague. The burning of Jews in the 14th century during the black death (bubonic plague). Septicemic plague is the rarest of the three plague varieties. Septicemic plague can cause disseminated intravascular coagulation, and is almost always fatal the mortality rate in medieval times was 99-100 percent. The disease is contracted primarily through the bite of an infected insect.
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