In 1239, Pope Gregory IX issued letters (dated around June) to archbishops and rulers in France, England, Castile/León, Aragon, Portugal, and elsewhere. These were prompted by accusations from Nicholas Donin, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who presented about 35 charges claiming the Talmud contained blasphemies against Jesus and Mary, attacks on Christianity, and other objectionable material, and that it kept Jews from converting.
The papal instructions directed that Jewish books (especially the Talmud) be seized—ideally on the first Saturday of Lent while Jews were gathered in synagogues—and deposited with the Dominicans (Friars Preachers) and Franciscans (Friars Minor) for examination. Books found to contain these blasphemies were to be burned. Secular authorities were to assist if needed, and those refusing to hand over books faced excommunication.
• Implementation was strongest in France under King Louis IX.
• This led to the Disputation (or “Trial”) of Paris in 1240, where Donin presented the charges and rabbis (including Rabbi Yehiel of Paris) defended the Talmud.
• In June 1242 roughly 24 wagonloads of Talmudic manuscripts—estimated at thousands of volumes (one common figure is up to around 10,000–12,000 handwritten works)—were publicly burned in Paris.
Later popes (such as Innocent IV, Alexander IV, and others) and French kings issued further condemnations, confiscations, or restrictions. Similar actions occurred in other places and centuries, including a major burning of the Talmud in Rome and other Italian cities in 1553 under the Roman Inquisition (during the Counter-Reformation), after which policy sometimes shifted more toward censorship of offensive passages rather than total destruction.
These were part of broader Church efforts to address Jewish literature and to encourage conversion, though enforcement varied by place and time, and Jewish study of the Talmud continued despite the losses (very few complete medieval Talmud manuscripts survived). Today, that opportunity has arrived, the masses have finally awaked to the evilness of the Talmud, Zohar, Kabbalah, etc and are ready to rise to the occasion sometime soon. The Knights Templar, founded around 1119 during the Crusades. After the First Crusade captured Jerusalem (1099), Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land faced frequent attacks. A small group of knights, led by the French nobleman Hugues de Payens, formed the order to protect these pilgrims. They were granted quarters on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (the site associated with Solomon’s Temple), which gave them their name.
The order combined monastic vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience) with military service. They have been awaiting their opportunity for the masses to awaken, but most importantly, what we are witnessing today to Christians. Christians are being persecuted more frequently and harshly than ever before, and it’s getting worse by the day. The time has arrived to finally put down these Demonic worshiping, human sacrificing creatures and all their literature.