![]() ![]() Other targets of the preacher's venom were witches, Jews, and heretics. ![]() Sexual deviants were the objects of relentless, unconditional persecution in Bernardino's sermons. His story of the Parisian vigilante was a recommendation. ![]() The speaker, the friar Bernardino (1380-1444), was one of the most important public figures of the time, and he spent forty years combing the towns of Italy, instructing, admonishing, and entertaining the crowds that gathered in prodigious numbers to hear his sermons. "When the city was filled with these bonfires, he then combed the city, and whenever he received notice of some public sodomite, he had him immediately seized and thrown into the nearest bonfire at hand and had him burned immediately." This story, of an anonymous individual who sought to cleanse medieval Paris, was part of a sermon delivered in Siena, Italy, in 1427. ![]()
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