This is the real, uncensored story of the controversial trial following the murder of Simon of Trent. You won’t read this side of the story on Wikipedia (or anywhere else really). I’ve read most available books regarding Simon of Trent, barring a few latin and italian ones. I’ve been working on this text for the last few days, in honor of Giovanni Gasparro's beautiful painting. I dedicate this story to him:
>In St. Peter's church in the small town of Trent, besieged in northern Italy lies the well-preserved body of a two year old boy in a sarcophagus, as small as a crib. The boy lies naked on a cushion, his body enclosed in a crystal coffin. Besides him are a number of tools of torture displayed; pliers, a knife, some needles and a blood cup. Several images of the martyr can be seen on the walls inside the church and if you gaze upwards to the dome one can view a poem by Dr. Tiberino from Trento inscribed in Latin, "I am Simon.”:
“Listen to a rarely seen evil, You who support the design of the Jew, I am Simon, the little boy from Trentino, The Martyr of the Holy Week, I tried to scream as Samuel pulled a cloth around my neck, One of them grabs my hands, the other grabs my feet, They cut my chest with needles, And tear off my flesh with pliers, Thus I faint; my head bends back and my arms fall down, Then my soul is set free, it rises to heaven. After the murder, they hurry to the Sabbath, And at the table they drink his blood. They cast curses in the name of Jesus Christ, And eat the Matzo made from his soul."
>Simon of Trent has for long been a source of diplomatic conflict between Christans and Jews. Not only for the circumstances surrounding the child's murder, but even at the time, the message - with the help of the newly invented printing press - spread like wildfire in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire.
>Jews often had campaigns to convince the seated pope to condemn the event as illegitimate. Even so, Pope Sixtus IV confirmed the case procedurally correct according to law in a papal bull, in July 1478, although reluctantly, as he heard the lamentations of the Jews during the investigation. In the same bull, he also preached that one is forbidden to paint the boy, create songs about him or sell poems dedicated to Simon of Trent. Pope Sixtus V, who, however, was more critical of increasing Jewish influence in Europe, saw no problem with allowing the veneration of Simon. In 1584, the Catholic seat of saints put him into martyrology and Pope Sixtus V approved the sainthood four years later. This is also confirmed by Pope Benedict XIV in the Bull Beautus Andreas the year 1755.
>The international Jewry were upset that this gave legitimacy to the question of blood accusation and asked the pope repeatedly to condemn it. Clement XIV, opened up a general investigation into the question of ritual murder. The investigation concluded a general disbelief of ritual murder, but the case of Simon of Trent and Andreas of Rinn were excluded from this denial and again rightfully confirmed as saints and victims of Jewish ritual murder. However, when the second Vatican Council in 1965 would mediate for reconciliation between Christians and Jews, Pope Paul VI removed the Simon of Trent - and other controversial martyrs - from the Catholic calendar.
>March 24, 1475. The service for Good Friday ended and Master Andreas Unferdorben - a craftsman in the village - told John Hinderbach - the Prince-Bishop of Trento - that his son had disappeared. Along with some friends Andreas had been looking for his child during the day in various trenches, in the canal and in the neighboring villages. He was distressed and asked Hinderbach for help, who took this very seriously, immediately sending the city bailiff - Giovanni de Salis - to assist in the search. The city gate was closed to the public while the guards went from door to door throughout the city to make inquiries about the boy, but on Saturday they still had no clue as to what fate had befallen the two year old. The desperation rose and Zanesus, an acquaintance of Andreas, asked if de Salis could order a search of rabbi Samuel’s house, the Jewish head of the village, because he had heard of similar cases from the other villages, where Jews had abducted Christian children. The search was then executed, but nothing was found in the house of Samuel.
>On Sunday the Jews themselves reported to the bailiff that they had found a boy in the water stream of Samuel's basement in the synagogue. Their story was as such: Seligman, one of the Jews, went down to the basement to fetch water. Horrified, he had seen the shape of a young boy lying in the water. He rushed up to the other Jews, they were alarmed and started discussing what to do with the body. They thought that he might have drowned. They then decided the next day to do the right thing and report what they have found. They mentioned that the day before, they coincidentally spoke as to what would happen if a Christian in the village with malicious intent planted a boy's body in their basement.
>It seemed already from a brief visual inspection obvious to de Salis and the captain of the guard that Simon could not have drowned. Gaping wounds had been inflicted all over his body and his genitals were truncated. De Salis and the captain immediately became suspicious. The body was taken to St. Peter's Hospital for further examination. The Jews of the three major houses – the money-lender and rabbi Samuel of Nuremberg, doctor Tobias of Magdeburg, and merchant Engel of Bern were taken in for questioning and three other male Jews were arrested; Isaac, Joaff and Seligman. After a few hours of interrogation the bailiff increased the degree of suspicion and the Jews were thrown into the dungeon called Buonconsiglio. Hinderbach realized that this could become a controversial case and asked the bailiff to inform him about the ongoing investigation. The wives of the Jews who were now in confinement began to send letters to other influential Jews in the Venice area in order to seek aid. A traveling painter, Israel, who visited the city during Easter, was arrested when he tried to escape from Trent. Together with the wives, Israel planned as to how he could sabotage the investigation and absolve the Jews of the crime. They theorized of removing the grate in the ditch so they could then claim that the body had flowed into Samuel's house. They also collected large quantities of gold, legal expertise, and asked Sigismund of Austria to force Hinderbach to release the Jews. Hinderbach did not budge to the archduke. They started accusing the villager Zanesus, which resulted in him and his wife being taken in for questioning. They could, however, produce a credible story of the events and were released shortly thereafter.
>More Jews were taken in for questioning on Monday, March 27, after two doctors, Archangelo the Balduini and Giovanni Mattia Tiberino, had examined the body. They testified that the cause of death could not possibly have been drowning since the boy still had soft limbs and an unblocked throat. He had, according to their statements, been in the water approximately two days after the moment of his death. Four people came forward with relevant testimony to de Salis during the day. Antoniolio, who held the watch that night, testified that he had heard a cry from Samuel's house the night of Friday, but had thought that it was just one of the Jewish children who made noises. Margaritha, wife of Hans Lederer also reported that she had heard the boy's cries, and even told her friend that it sounded like Andreas' boy, Simon.
>Giovanni de Salis was convinced that he had sufficient evidence to initiate an interrogation involving torture. The strappado was used but during the first few days none of the Jews admitted to the infanticide. After a week, Rabbi Samuel reluctantly acknowledged that he and Tobias had choked the boy using a cloth - without telling more - perhaps in a desperate attempt to free the other Jews of blame. The torture stepped up gradually - the bailiff was using boiling hot eggs held against the armpits and a pan with sulfur to the nostrils. On Saturday, April 8 Tobias of Magdeburg breaks down and explains the circumstances of the case. He speaks of when Rabbi Samuel asked him to find a child to sacrifice on the Passover, how they killed Simon, and also what was done with his blood. Samuel also admits a few days later, followed by several other Jews, including the elderly Moses, who took his life before the trial could begin. This is the overarching sequence of events described when the Jews read their testimonies in the court:
>Samuel of Nuremberg revealed that the blood ritual that was carried out was a hidden rite passed down by the father to the son. The rite was not written in the sacred Jewish scriptures. It was performed as a curse, in the same spirit Moses cast ten plagues on Egypt, a spell now directed against Christianity. He gave Tobias the task of finding a Christian boy at most seven years, to sacrifice before the Passover Seder. Tobias was at first reluctant, but Samuel convinced him with the help of one hundred gold ducats. He then got to work on his mission. The Christians were occupied in church and sang the hymn Gloria during the Holy Thursday Mass while the streets were almost empty, which meant that Dr Tobias who had a good reputation in the city - could easily lure Simon to Samuel's house. The poor child was then locked inside the synagogue anteroom until midnight, when the Jews gathered and Moses the Elder initiated the rite by picking up a pair of pliers and started to rip out pieces of meat - first from Simon's cheek, then he started to work downwards, to the right leg. The child was at first screaming in agony. Samuel strangled him with a scarf to downplay the screams and possibly to redirect the blood flow. The other Jews continued with the ritual in Moses' steps.
>One of them held out the bowl to catch the blood, while another Jew used large needles to puncture the chest of Simon. His whole body was viciously pierced with needles in order for the blood to be extracted. During the ritual, the Jews shouted incantations against the little boy; "This is what we did with Jesus - let our eternal enemies meet the same fate". The anemia and shock made the two-year old boy weak, but he was still alive. Moses then circumcised the boy and in a final act of brutality he took hold of the head of the boy and shattered the skull to the altar. The Jews came together in a song of praise to their God, and divided the blood drawn from the child to the three different houses of Trent. The blood was then dried and they baked Matzo-bread with it. During Good Friday the body was displayed, lying on the altar of the synagogue, and all the Jews, even the women came together in a humiliating ritual in which the dead boy acted as a mirror of the image of Jesus Christ. They slapped the little child's corpse, they spit in his face, did the fig, stuck out their tongues and uttered various curses. Then the corpse was discarded in the basement and laid there until the Jews, in a sly but desperate act, reported the crime, believing that they would not be suspected.
>The nine Jews involved in the rite were sentenced to be burned at the stake in late June - Tobias, Engel, Samuel, Israel, Moses the Elder, Mayer, Vital and two Seligman. The painter Israel converted and changed his name to Wolfgang. He was a great help in both the theological question of ritual murders because he could read Hebrew. He was used to track other ritual murders that had been committed in the region and the whereabouts of the Venician blood merchants. Hinderbach wanted to pursue the investigation by also taking the female Jews for interrogation. The women were (later) pardoned and the children were converted to the Christian faith. The Prince bishop sent a letter to the pope where he asked Pope Sixtus IV to certify Simon's martyrdom. Pope's envoy, the Commissioner, was a professor of theology, Battista de Giudici, bishop of Ventimiglia. He arrived at Trent in August 1475 with an entourage of several powerful Jews. The Jews were rapidly driven away from the city by the citizens, who had grown irritated of the Jews attempts to try to subvert the direction of the case. Giudici received a warm welcome by Hinderbach, who gave him lodgings in the bishop's house.
>But Giudici was holding intimate meetings with Israel Wolfgang, the Christian the convert, while he was pretending to help Hinderbach. It was not suitable in the Villa - he did not want to get caught by the Prince Bishop - so he excused himself and moved to an inn in the nearby village Roveredo. In his new home called Rosa Inn, he made plans with the Jews about bribery, blackmail and other mischief. He sent a jew spy - Paolo de Novaria - who copied the trial documents in secret in order to analyze them and try to find weak points. What was worse was that Paolo received a sum of 400 ducats in order to assassinate the Prince Bishop. This conspiracy was revealed by the observant de Salis while Paolo was looking for a potent poison. Paolo was charged and in a spectacular trial cut off his own tongue. The painter convert, Wolfgang, was also put on trial for his scheming with the Jewesses. He admitted to not believing in the Christian faith, that his conversion was only a method of escaping persecution. He admitted to trying to poison the Prince Bishop and in a final act of defiance, screamed at the bailiff that it was a good thing to slaughter Christian children, that he did not regret participating in blood rituals and that he wanted to die as a Jew. He was also put to the stake, after being broken on the wheel.
>Giudici became increasingly desperate and in a new plan coordinated with the Jews he kidnapped one of the residents named Anzelin to the inn in Roveredo. He tortured him so that he would bring false accusations against Zanesus. But Anzelin refused and was let go after the promise that he would keep quiet about the incident. In a last attempt to stop the trial Giudici counterfeited documents from the pope which claimed Hinderbach was ordered to discontinue the trial with the threat of being excommunicated from the Catholic Church. >This did not stop the pious Hinderbach, who was surrounded by enthusiastic, faithful men who did not let themselves be influenced by neither bribes nor threats. He saw through the scheming of Giudici and recorded every heinous act in text, which resulted in the commissioner was ridiculed and hated by the villagers in the region. In a letter to Pope Sixtus IV, he asks the pope to "stop this farce” and the embarrassed pope has no choice but to ask Giudici to confirm the verdict and then send him away. The Jews spent upwards of one hundred twenty thousand gold ducats in bribes and lawyers. >When the whole spectacle ended in 1478, delayed by the plague, the synagogue was removed and in its place, Hinderbach constructed a chapel in Saint Simon's name. Emperor Maximilian later established a secret organization to guard the relics and see to it that the Jews would never return to Trent. At least until the early twentieth century the Jews feared the region of Trento and have thus avoided it like the plague.
Vier Tiroler Kinder : Opfer des chassidischen Fanatismus Blood Passover Trent 1475 : stories of a ritual murder trial Dissertazione Apologetica Sul Martirio del Beato Simone da Trento
Thanks for putting this together, user. Interesting reading.
Jaxon Phillips
One can doubt about the confession first extracted by torture of the jews, but the plotting and getting caught afterwards of the convert guy sure does make the case stronger. He didn't need to confess to all of it but did so right away..
Thanks for the good read!
Evan Butler
thanks user... very high quality thread
Daniel Ward
It's also interesting to note that the Jews have tried to keep this story hidden for many centuries. Some very dedicated historians have written books in Italian and German, using various local sources. The best source for the whole case, Prozess gegen die Juden von Trient, has been under lock down by Jews since the 1600s.
From wiki:
>The Prozess was written some time between 20 June 1478 and 1479 as a commission by either Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg or his brother-in-law, Francesco Gonzaga. Whoever was responsible for it, the work features the arms of the Dukes of Württemberg, and consists of 614 illuminated folios. In 1615 it was acquired by a convent in Vienna, where it remained until the Great Depression in the 1930s, when it was auctioned.
>It came up for auction in December 1937, when it drew the attention of the Jewish-American businessman and bibliomane Lessing J. Rosenwald. Rosenwald was certain that, should the manuscript be obtained by the Nazi German administration, it would be used to justify anti-Semitism, and insisted that his auction agent spend whatever amount of money was necessary to secure it. This was done, with one of the outbid auction attendees later discovered to be an agent of the German government. As soon as the work arrived in the United States, Rosenwald shipped it to the American Jewish Historical Society, mandating that it be sealed and hidden for 50 years. When this time period expired, the Society auctioned the manuscript for $176,000 to Erica and Ludwig Jesselson, a pair of Jewish cultural collectors and patrons. The manuscript was then donated to Yeshiva University in 1988, where it remains. In 1992 it was used as a resource by R. Po-Chia Hsia, a European history professor, to author the book Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial and contribute to scholarship around the trials in Trent
Po-Chia Hsia is the only non Jew allowed to view this manuscript & he is extremely biased.
It's true that torture was used in most cases, but some of the women confessed without torture. It's also important to note that no leading questions were asked during interrogations and the accused could not speak to one another. Evidence was carefully corroborated, they even traced many of the characters the Jews referred to, such as merchants in other towns & other ritual murders. There is simply no possibility that they could have made the story up, one by one, and there is even less chance that the interrogators could have done so. Ariel Toaff explains this very well in his book, Blood Passover. It's a recommended read, even though the structure is a bit messy.
Here it speaks about the attempt of removing the fence so it was possible to claim that water transported the body of Simon in Samuel's house, plus speaking of letters written in hebrew by women trying to subvert the investigation etc etc.
Based swissbro, would be cool if you could translate a paragraph or two. I've only googletranslated parts of it, I don't speak Italian.
Another Italian book, that is probably the best work on the Simon case is: Storia del beato Simone da Trento - Giuseppe Divina. Unfortunately it seems to be a rarity, I can't find it on the web, or even to buy.
I can't translate everything now but some passages from the first pic:
...lui praticate in far con segretezza somma guinger agli ebrei, e da questi ricevere le rispettive lor lettere. Che penetrò i maneggi de' medesimi per impegnare a forza di danaro in favor loro l'Arciduca Sigismondo, che però non mai volle arrendersi alle inique loro premure; ciò che parimente con riuscita nulla meno infelice praticarono coll'Hinderbachio, Sporo, Sala, etc.
...done by him in extreme secrecy and to arrive to the jews, and from those receive many letters. Who discovered their plot to bribe with larges amounts of money the Archduke Sigismund, that never surrendered to their will. an attempted bribery that they tried too with Hinderbach, Sporo, Sala etc.
Camden Cox
If they handled it in that way, it is even more condemning. It seems like they really wanted to hear the truth rather than find someone to convict.
I also thought that, if it's a secret conferred from father to son, there must hundreds of thousands involved. Some guy must spill the beans out of a feeling of guilt at some point right? Well.. I guess they must really really hate us.
Nathan Gutierrez
Bumping for justice
Xavier Parker
You're doing God's will user. Bless you
Gabriel Thompson
..erasi di più impegnato andar in Roma, per quivi deporre il falso in favor degli ebrei, i quali... un tale Bettino... una minutissima istruzione su tutto quello sarebbe loro convenuto dire per fargli in quella guisa camminare perfettamente d'accordo...
... he (another one) was busy in Rome to lie in court in favour of the jews, and they hired... ...a man named Bettino... they instructed him very carefully about everything that he should have said so that their versions (lies) were absolutely the same...
Angel Edwards
>Pope Paul VI removed Simon from the Roman Martyrology in 1965 Why?
Ayden Garcia
Brcause he was a freemason antipope jew
Logan Gray
everything you hear about the jews sacrificing christian children for their pascal bread is true. ignore the shill and keep exposing the satanic kikels.
Is that the artist? What a total chad. Theres a lot going on in his face. What I see there....I see the future.
Jeremiah Cruz
The artist looks like such a badass. Like a mix between a young ceo and a modern rockstar.
No homo, obviously.
James Torres
You wanna try that again. And a little less projecting this time
Owen Thomas
tripfag ego dabbing in a jew blood libel thread
Jacob Ross
Ritual murder was very common for the Hasidic sect in Imperial Russia/Poland. For example, Edmund Levin quotes that between 1890 and 1900, there were almost one hundred known ritual murder allegations in Imperial Russia. It all culminated in the murder of Andrei Yushchinsky, if you study that trial, everything is laid bare. One (of many) example: Vladimir Dal made a study of ritual murder on the order of Nicholas I, and in that study, he brings up a rabbi who converted to Christianity, who revealed everything. You can read the text itself here:
>Kike post a message claiming that they admitted the crimes under torture and that it wasn't a fair trial >Told him that it was the same case with the Nuremberg trial was also manipulated and wasn't fair >None of the 3 kikes ever answered back
this around the time chinese reentered global politics
Angel Bennett
based swede, I hope you don't die of kung flu
Ian Martin
This guy was a templar and rosicrucian (mason)
Hudson Johnson
Exactly. And that has been continuing to play out in the Leo Frank/Mary Phagan murder wherein Frank's actions are SO beyond dispute that any and every attempt to show that motherfucker as innocent is repulsively, vilely complicit. The book "And the Dead Shall Rise" meticulously recounts the event and Frank's overwhelmingly obvious culpability. To claim otherwise is to murder this little girl in contemporaneous fashion.
Leo Nelson
The same story continues to play out regarding the murder of Mary Phagan by Leo Frank. Why in the world good-hearted Jews would continue to tolerate such transparent vileness - supposedly carried out to further collective protection - is beyond me.
Jordan Long
>Ariel Toaff explains this very well in his book, Blood Passover.
