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This topic comes up from time to time, please see the end footnote especially for discussion. I think the Vatican 2 church has tried to deny these incidents happened, which is not true. On the other hand some who oppose the Jewish people may claim these incidents regularly occur, which doesn't seem to be the case among random Jewish people (although could be among elites, who may be a mix of Jews and gentiles, although that is a separate matter).

Curious about your thoughts on the topic

> March 24.--ST. SIMON, Infant Martyr.

> "HAIL, flowers of the martyrs!" the Church sings in her
Office of the Holy Innocents, who were the first to die
for Christ; and in every age mere children and infants
have gloriously confessed His name. In 1472 the Jews
in the city of Trent determined to vent their hate against
the Crucified by slaying a Christian child at the coming
Passover; and Tobias, one of their number, was deputed
to entrap a victim. He found a bright, smiling boy
named Simon playing outside his home, with no one
guarding him. Tobias patted the little fellow's cheek, and
coaxed him to take his hand. The boy, who was not two
years old, did so; but he began to call and cry for his
mother when he found himself being led from home.
Then Tobias gave him a bright coin to look at, and with
many kind caresses silenced his grief, and conducted
him securely to his house. At midnight on Holy
Thursday the work of butchery began. Having gagged
his mouth, they held his arms in the form of a cross,
while they pierced his tender body with awls and
bodkins in blasphemous mockery of the sufferings of
Jesus Christ. After an hour's torture the little martyr
lifted his eyes to heaven and gave up his innocent soul.
The Jews cast his body into the river; but their crime
was discovered and punished, while the holy relics were
enshrined in St. Peter's Church at Trent, where they
have worked many miracles.

> WILLIAM OF NORWICH is another of these children
martyrs. His parents were simple country folk, but his
mother was taught by a vision to expect a Saint in her
son. As a boy be fasted thrice a week and prayed
constantly, and he was only an apprentice twelve years
of age, at a tanner's in Norwich, when he won his
crown. A little before Easter, 1137, he was enticed into a
Jew's house, and was there gagged, bound, and crucified
in hatred of Christ. Five years passed before the body
was found, when it was buried as a saintly relic in the
cathedral churchyard. A rose-tree planted hard by
flowered miraculously in midwinter, and many sick
persons were healed at his shrine. [*1]

> Reflection.--Learn from the infant martyrs that, however
weak you may be, you still can suffer for Christ's sake.

> Footnote 123:1 It must not be thought that these singular and
extraordinary instances establish the charge that the
slaying of Christian children is part of the Jewish ritual.
This accusation against the Jews has been proved to be
false.

> Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed.
[1894], at sacred-texts.com - https://sacred-texts.com/chr/lots/lots099.htm

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