la Saint-Barthélémy toulousaine. Not to be

confused with the massacre of Saint Bartholomew. Four thousand Huguenots were killed by the Catholics in a civil war that broke out in Toulouse in 1562. In the massacre of 1572 about 300 more were slain here.

222. — 6. nee de la fureur du taureau. Saint Saturnin (or Sernin) was dragged by a bull which he had refused to sacrifice to Jupiter. — 7. sacrée par la première croisade. Only the choir of the church dates from this period (eleventh century). — 8. les massacres de I'Eiirope. Especially in the Religious Wars of the sixteenth century.

II. l'affreux bric-à-brac des crânes. The relics of Saint Saturnin and of numerous other saints are kept in a crypt under the choir.