Word: chrysostom
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...centuries of Christians would oblige them with massacres and persecutions, pogroms and expulsions of "Christ killers" and the depredations of the Inquisition, laying groundwork for the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust. Anti-Jewish passions came not only from misinterpreters of faith but from the spiritual authorities themselves, from John Chrysostom, from Thomas Aquinas -- both saints of Christendom -- indeed, from Martin Luther, who turned against the Jews after they spurned his reformed Christianity...