Brussels massacre
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The Brussels massacre (1370) was an attack leading to the destruction of the Jewish community in Brussels 20 years after the Black Death persecutions.[1] Following accusations of host desecration twenty Jews were burnt and property confiscated.[2]
For many years the annual bridal procession of St. Gudula patron saint of Brussels included display of relics of miraculous host-wafers said to have been profaned by Jews in the year 1370.[3][4]
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- ^ The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A-J p204 Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder - 2001 -"BRUSSELS ( Fr. Bruxelles) capital of Belgium. Jews are believed to have lived in B. from the middle of the 13th cent. ... The community revived later, but another massacre followed in 1370 in the wake of a Host desecration libel."
- ^ Au nom de l'antisionisme: l'image des Juifs et d'Israël dans la ... p27 Joël Kotek, Dan Kotek - 2005 "Des émeutes antijuives s'ensuivent. La profanation de l'hostie, que les chrétiens identifient à la personne même du Christ, serait la répétition du crime du calvaire. En 1370, une vingtaine de Juifs sont brûlés à Bruxelles."
- ^ Dan Mikhman Belgium and the Holocaust: Jews, Belgians, Germans p121 1998 the annual St. Gudule procession in Brussels in which relics were shown of hosts said to have been profaned by Jews in the year 1370.
- ^ W. Lourdaux, Werner Verbeke Cultura mediaevalis: p174 - 1992 "... terecht uit de middeleeuwse samenleving geweerde joden zich in 1370 wel degelijk aan hostieprofanatie hadden schuldig gemaakt ... Le jubilé d'un vrai miracle (Brussel, 1870). 33 H. Matagne, Le Saint-Sacrement de Miracle a Bruxelles
