The pope struck a medal {219} with a picture of an avenging angel and the legend, "Ugonotorum strages," and ordered an annual Te Deum which was, in fact, celebrated for a long time.

But on the other hand a cry of horror arose from Germany and England.

Elizabeth received the French ambassador dressed in mourning and declared to him that "the deed had been too bloody." Though the triumph of the Catholics was loudly shouted, it was not as complete as they hoped.

The Huguenots seemed cowed for a moment, but nothing is more remarkable than the constancy of the people.
Recantations were extremely few.

The Reformed pastors, nourished on the Old Testament, saw in the affliction that had befallen them nothing but the means of proving the faithful.