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Walram von Jülich, Archbishop of Cologne from 1332 to 1349, was the senior Catholic ecclesiastical authority for the entire lower Rhineland during the Black Death. He had personal authority sufficient to prevent the 1349 anti-Jewish massacres in his archdiocese. He chose not to use it.
Read the story →Walram von Jülich was Archbishop of Cologne from 1332 to 1349. He had personally signed orders to protect the Cologne Jewish community against the Black Death well-poisoning libel, was widely circulating Pope Clement VI's protective papal bulls in his archdiocese, and was dying of plague himself when the Cologne mob massacred the community on the night of 23 August 1349.
Read the story →Cologne's Jewish community had stood since the fourth century. On the night of Saint Bartholomew, August 1349, a mob ended it in a few hours.
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