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Author: vatican.va
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English[en]
14. Notable among almost countless others was the unforgettable and savage onslaught on the Catholic religion which flared up in the 17th century in the Eastern countries. The Cossack forces then invaded those lands, and directed their furious attack on Catholics and their pastors, and on the heralds of the truth of the Gospel. Temples dedicated to the divine worship were utterly destroyed; monasteries were consumed by fire; priests and their flocks were everywhere put to the sword; everything was laid waste; all that was sacred was scattered to the winds.
Italian[it]
Resta viva nella memoria la terribile persecuzione scatenata contro la religione cattolica nel secolo XVII nelle regioni orientali, dopo l'invasione dei cosacchi, i quali assalirono furiosamente i cattolici coi loro pastori e coi predicatori della verità evangelica: le chiese giacevano distrutte, i conventi erano dati alle fiamme, i sacerdoti e i loro fedeli per ogni dove trucidati; ogni cosa era devastata; dappertutto era lo scempio delle cose sacre.
Latin[la]
Celebris inter ceteras paene innumeras venit memoranda illa ac teterrima catholicae religionis insectatio, quae septimo decimo saeculo in regionibus ad orientem vergentibus exarsit, cum illic Cosacorum copiae, quae tunc temporis in terras illas invaserant, furoris sui impetum in catholicos in eorumque Pastores et in Evangelicae veritatis praecones fecerunt; quapropter cernere erat dirutas aedes divino cultui dicatas; incensa monachorum domicilia; sacerdotes eorumque greges passim trucidatos; vastata omnia; sacra omnia dispersa.