Giovanni Battista Bugatti Was The Man Who Carried Out 516 Executions On The Orders Of The Pope At Rome During The Time Of The Papal States
Executioner Giovanni Battista Bugatti was one of the people who swung the axe for the popes, recording a whopping 516 executions during his tenure. If you are of a certain age, as I am, you remember that in history class in school you learned about something called the ‘Dark Ages’, a period of time when […]
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Executioner Giovanni Battista Bugatti was one of the people who swung the axe for the popes, recording a whopping 516 executions during his tenure.
If you are of a certain age, as I am, you remember that in history class in school you learned about something called the ‘Dark Ages’, a period of time when the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican State ruled Europe with an iron fist. This all came to an end with an event called ‘The Reformation’ in the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, an early and highly successful first effort to throw off the shackles of Catholic tyranny. The resulting Protestantism wasn’t perfect, but was a whole lot better than what the Vatican was providing. Let’s learn about Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the pope’s executioner.
“For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.” Revelation 16:6 (KJB)
The Roman Catholic Church, itself an arm of the government of Rome in its declining years, would fully come to power around the 7th – 8th centuries after having begun in the mid-4th century under the Roman emperor Constantine. For the first 280 years of Christian history, Christianity was banned by the Roman Empire, and Christians were terribly persecuted. This changed after the “conversion” of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine provided religious toleration with the Edict of Milan in AD 313, effectively lifting the ban on Christianity. Later, in AD 325, Constantine called the Council of Nicaea in an attempt to unify Christianity. Constantine envisioned Christianity as a religion that could unite the Roman Empire, which at that time was beginning to fragment and divide. That, in a nutshell, is where the Roman Catholic Church comes from. Rome.
When the Roman Church solidified its power base by the 700’s AD, we have the start of ‘a thousand years of darkness’ where glorious paganism disguised as Christianity ruled a large section of Europe. The popes were some of the most corrupt and evil people you would never want to come across, and books like Foxe’s Book of Martyr’s and Martyr’s Mirror will tell you all about those times in sickening detail. We highly recommend you purchase and read both those books. It was during this time that the Papal States were created where the popes rules as kings, carrying out executions in the thousands. Giovanni Battista Bugatti was one of the people who swung the axe for the popes, recording a whopping 516 executions during his tenure. They even gave him a cute nickname, ‘Maestro Titta’, or The Master of Justice.
Giovanni Battista Bugatti, known as ‘Maestro Titta’ (Senigallia, 1779 – Rome, 1869) was an Italian executioner of the Papal States who executed 514 people during his 68 years of activity. He became an executioner at the age of 17, in 1796. Bugatti noted 516 names of the executed, but two convicts are subtracted from the account, one because he was shot and the other because he was hanged and quartered by his aide.
On August 17, 1864, Giovanni Battista Bugatti was replaced by Vincenzo Balducci and Pope Pius IX granted him a pension, with a monthly pension of 30 scudi. Maestro Titta carried out sentences throughout the pontifical territory.
In Valentano, at the historical archives, it is possible to find the testimony of his first execution in the locality of Poggio delle Forche, written in the first person: “On March 28, 1797, I beat with a mallet and ripped Valentano Marco Rossi, who killed his uncle and his cousin to take revenge for the unequal division made of a common inheritance. The nickname given to Bugatti was then extended to his successors: in Rome, the term ‘Maestro Titta’ is synonymous with the executioner.
Ask yourself if any Church started by Jesus Christ, no matter how lukewarm or backslidden they could possibly be, would engage in the public execution of human beings for any reason. Show me the Bible verse written by Paul, Peter or any of the apostles advocating the carrying out of capital punishment by the Church. You can’t do it. The Roman Catholic Church has always been, and remains to this day, the biggest killer of Christians that’s ever existed on this Earth. And guess what? The days are coming when they will do it again. We invite you to visit our ‘Mystery Babylon’ section at the Bookstore, where you can educate yourself on what has been, and what shall be, according to your King James Bible.
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