Blood Libel Accusations in Austria and Italy

a child in a cruel fashion, and they were executed for this inhumane crime.

In the year 1462, in the village of Rind, Innsbruck, in Austria, Jews reportedly ritually murdered a child by the name of Angela on a large stone. The child became a celebrated saint. A church was built around the stone. The city even became known as Judenstein,

or the Jew's stone. More recently, in 1997, Professor Robert Brantner of a theological college in Austria said this about ritual murders. He said, Jews should apologize for their deplorable crimes, against Catholic children like the Holy Martyr Child under the Fonamon, and against adults in the days before Easter, and for the blood

of murdered Christians spilled by Jewish hands, which cries to heaven too. Jews became a little perturbed when the Pope met with Professor Brantner.

In the year 1475, in Trent, Italy, Jews reportedly ritually murdered a child by the name of Simon.

During the process, they also circumcised the child. This has also been the reported case in many other such incidents, although we don't believe it's necessarily a requirement during a bloodletting process. This child too had puncture marks over his entire body.

The child was later made a saint.