…for it is a fact that humans shape their memories to suit their sufferings.

…as is commonly said by people, memory must be the guardian of lies.

This is so much the case that when we bring up to them [i.e. the Catholics] the persecutions and the horrific cruelties with which they and their ancestors have harassed and tortured us and our fathers without ever stopping through a hundred years and more – why, they don't even blush…But who doesn't know that, from the very beginning of their damnable betrayal and in all of their written petitions to the rulers of the age, these traitors and persecutors have begged for our destruction and have attempted to force us into their communion by means of threats and legal charges – all of this against the commands of God? We must speak not just of how much Christian blood was spilled by Leontius, Ursacius, Macarius, Paul, Taurinus, Romanus and the other executioners whom they obtained from the princes of this age for the murder of the saints. There are their other crimes: the great number of venerable bishops killed and others thrown into exile, Christians tortured far and wide, sacred virgins raped, wealthy men proscribed, the poor pillaged, basilicas seized and their bishops forced to flee. There is no one who does not know how many crimes they have committed in our own time. They forced bishops into exile, threw off great heights Christians who were trying to escape their grasp, oppressed congregations, robbed clergy, invaded our basilicas, and rained blows on those who tried to resist them. Finally, at just one village, named Bagaï, they were the cause of the spilling of the blood of many Christians. But not satisfied with this, they have not stopped their terrible acts against us until the present day.