This is why I love history.

Always the good boys.

There's also a dog that was venerated as a saint.

Well, that just makes me sad.

This sounds like it should be a holiday, I think.

That's a saint I can get behind

Ooh, what a shitty way to go

I'll see you and raise




Johan de Witt


Nevertheless, he was sentenced to exile. When his brother went over to the jail (which was only a few steps from his house) to help him get started on his journey, both were attacked by members of The Hague's civic militia. The brothers were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy.