Flashcards: Blood libel

Justinas Bonaventura Pranaitis or Pronaitis (July 27, 1861 – January 28, 1917) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest (subsequently defrocked), Russian Master of Theology and Professor of the Hebrew Language at the Imperial Ecclesiastical Academy of the Roman Catholic Church in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The Rhodes blood libel was an 1840 event of blood libel against Jews, in which the Greek Orthodox community accused Jews on the island of Rhodes (then part of the Ottoman Empire) of the ritual murder of a Christian boy who disappeared in February of that year.

Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (Russian: Владимир Митрофанович Пуришкевич) (August 12, 1870, Kishinev – February 1, 1920, Novorossiysk, Russia), was a right wing politician in Imperial Russia, noted for his monarchist, ultra-nationalist, antisemitic and anti-bolshevik views.

William of Norwich (2 February 1132 – 22 March 1144) was an English boy whose death was, at the time, attributed to the Jewish community of Norwich.

The Damascus affair of 1840 refers to the arrest of thirteen notable members of the Jewish community of Damascus who were accused of murdering a Christian monk for ritual purposes.

Gabriel of Białystok (Polish: Gabriel Białostocki, Russian: Гавриил Белостокский - Gavriil Belostoksky or Gabriel of Zabłudów, Polish: Gabriel Zabłudowski, alternatively Gavrila or Gavriil; April 2 O.S. 1684 - April 20, 1690) is a child saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Host desecration is a form of sacrilege in Christianity (most frequently identified as such in the traditions of Anglicanism, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Methodism, and Roman Catholicism) involving the mistreatment or malicious use of a consecrated host—the sacred bread used in the Eucharistic service of the Divine Liturgy or Mass.

Alexander Ivanovich Dubrovin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Дубро́вин) (1855, Kungur - unknown) was a Russian right wing politician, a leader of the Union of the Russian People (URP).

Arnold Spencer Leese (1878–1956) was a British fascist politician and veterinarian.

Ariel Toaff (born 1942) is a professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Bar Ilan University in Israel, whose work has focused on Jews and their history in Italy.

The Holy Child of La Guardia (Spanish: El Santo Niño de La Guardia) (died 1491) was the subject of a medieval blood libel (the false, antisemetic accusation of a ritual murder by Jews) in the town of La Guardia in the central Spanish province of Toledo (Castile–La Mancha).

Pieter Willem van der Horst (born 4 July 1946) is a scholar and university professor emeritus specializing in New Testament studies, Early Christian literature, and the Jewish and Hellenistic context of Early Christianity.

Saint Dominguito del Val (died c. 1250) was a legendary child of Medieval Spain, who was allegedly a choirboy ritually murdered by Jews in Zaragoza (Saragossa).

The Blessed Bernardine of Feltre (sometimes Bernardinus of Feltre) was a Friar Minor and missionary, b.

Anderl (Andreas) Oxner von Rinn, also known as Andreas Oxner, (c. 1459 – 12 July 1462) is a folk saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

Gordon Winrod (born December 30, 1926), is a Christian Identity minister who is serving 30 years prison term for abducting six of his grandchildren in 1994 and 1995.

Carl Donald Boström (born 30 May 1954) is a Swedish journalist, photographer, and writer.

Saint Robert of Bury (died 1181) was an English boy, allegedly murdered and found in the town of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 1181.

Werner of Oberwesel (also known as Werner of Bacharach or Werner of Womrath; b. 1271 in Womrath, Hunsrück; d. 1287) was a 16-year-old boy whose unexplained death was blamed on Jews, leading to revenge killings of Jews across Europe.

Saint Harold (d. 1168) was a child martyr who was reported to have been slain by Jews in Gloucester, England, in 1168.