A Two-Year-Old’s Death Leads to a Jewish Bloodbath

Nearly 500 years later the Catholic Church formally declares the boy was not a martyr

A 1493 woodcut of the “Martyrdom of Simon” (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Trent, Italy, is perhaps best known today for the Council of Trent, seen as one of the most significant events in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Responding to the Reformation movement started by Martin Luther was one of the…