Mirror of Cruelty

Robert Nixon is a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, New Norcia, Western Australia, and a Roman Catholic priest. He serves as Director of the New Norcia Institute for Benedictine Studies, and is dean and liturgy coordinator for his monastic community. His publications include many translations of Medieval and post-Medieval Latin works, such as Crown of the Virgin by Ildephonsus of Toledo, Humility and the Elevation of the Mind to God by Thomas à Kempis, and adaptations into English verse of the poetry of Popes Urban VIII and Alexander VI. Articles of his have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Revue Bénédictine, the American Benedictine Review, and Ecce Mater Tua. He is a former senate member of James Cook University (Australia), an honorary professor of the Universidad Politecnica de Nicaragua, and an honorary academician of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, and was awarded the Faculty Medal in Theology by the Australian Catholic University.

• Translator's IntroductionLetter of Approval from the Prior of the Grande Chartreuse monastery, and Moderator and Minister-General of the Carthusian Order, Dom Bruno II de Affringuesi. Introductionii. The slaughter and devastation instigated by Martin Luther in upper Germanyiii. The cruel persecutions of Catholics in Englandiv. King Henry VIII and the Carthusian martyrsv. Some acts of egregious cruelty committed in Irelandvi. The persecutions in France under the Calvinist regimesvii. Some particular examples of atrocities committed by Calvinists in Franceviii. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part I) ix. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part II) x. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part III) xi. The Franciscan martyrs at Gorkum (Part IV) xii. The cruelty of the Calvinists towards four Augustinian Canons Regularxiii. The martyrdom of two Hieronymite monks at Goudaxiv. The vicious martyrdom of the poet Cornelis Musiusxv. The martyrdom of William of Gouda, a Franciscan friarxvi. Further hideous crimes perpetrated against Catholics in Holland and Flandersxvii. The martyrdom of twelve Carthusian monks at Roermond in Hollandxviii. The horrendous and inhuman torture and execution of Balthasar Gérard of Burgundy, the man who killed the Prince of Orangexix. ConclusionList of ImagesBibliography