IN BRIEF: RETURN OF INQUISITION - Stanley R Rader - December 1980

Stanley R Rader

ROBERT OGUIER was seized, bound and eventually led to a small room. A band of "professionals" came into the room. One of them tried to convince him to change his religion. Mark Levitt was seized, bound, a hood put on his head and taken to a small attic. He also was visited by professionals who endeavored to change his religious beliefs, basically by badgering and interrogating him in six-hour shifts. Robert Oguier's story is found in Foxe's Book of Martyrs and describes events that happened in France in 1556. (The "professionals" were religious inquisitors. The small room was his jail cell.) Mark Levitt's story was carried by the Associated Press and describes events that happened in the United States in May, 1978. There are, of course, some differences. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library