Blood libel
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Blood libel or ritual murder libel is an antisemitic trope which falsely accuses Jews of murdering Christians in order to use their blood in the performance of religious rituals. Echoing very old myth
Statue of Simon of Trent, an Italian child whose disappearance and death was blamed on the leaders of the city's Jewish community
The crucifixion of William of Norwich depicted on a rood screen in Holy Trinity church, Loddon, Norfolk
Simon of Trent blood libel. Illustration in Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik, 1493
Painting of Werner of Oberwesel as a martyr
Simon of Trent
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Simon of Trent, also known as Saint Simon of Trent, was a young boy from the city of Trent, in the Prince-Bishopric of Trent, whose disappearance and death were weaponized as a blood libel against the
Blood libel
…sacrifice have become venerated as Christian martyrs. Many of these – most prominently William of Norwich (1144), Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1255), and Simon of Trent (1475) – became objects of local cults and veneration; the cult of Hugh of Lincoln gained the support of Henry III and his son Edward I, giving it…
Bust of Simon of Trent by Antonio Rizzo, previously attributed to Francesco Laurana, 1475-80, Getty Center.
School of Niklaus Weckmann, The Martyrdom of Saint Simonino
Unknown painter, Ex voto; fresco, end of the 15th century, church of Santa Maria Annunciata, Bienno (BS), Italy
Incunabulum of Friedrich Creussner, Nuremberg, 1475