Dupony says that in one month
there were 56,000 victims in Marseilles, and at Montpellier
three-quarters of the population and all the physicians were
stricken with the epidemic.
Johanna of Burgundy, wife of King Philip VI of Valois; Johanna
II, Queen of Navarre, granddaughter of Philippe le Bel; Alphonse
XI of Castile, and other notable persons perished. All the cities
of England suffered incredible losses. Germany seems to have been
particularly spared; according to a probable calculation, only
about 1,250,000 dying. Italy was most severely visited, and was
said to have lost most of its inhabitants. In the north of Europe
two of the brothers of Magnus, King of Sweden, died; and in
Westgothland alone 466 priests died. The plague showed no
decrease in the northern climates of Iceland and Greenland, and
caused great havoc in those countries.
The moral effect of such a great pandemic plague can be readily
surmised. The mental shock sustained by all nations during the
prevalence of the black plague is beyond parallel and
description. An awful sense of contrition and repentance seized
Christians of every community. They resolved to forsake their
vices, and to make restitution for past offenses; hence extreme
religious fanaticism held full sway throughout Europe.
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