In Piedmont (Italy) in the middle of the seventeenth century anyone in Villaro (Spain) who declined to go to a Roman Catholic mass was liable to be crucified upside down.
Some were maimed and left to die of starvation, some had strips of flesh (pound of flesh) cut off their bodies until they bled to death, some were stoned, some impaled alive upon stakes or hooks.
Some were dragged along the ground until there flesh was scraped away. One at least was literally minced. Daniel Rambaut had his toes and fingers cut off in sections: one joint being amputated each day in an attempt to make him recant and accept the Roman faith.
Some had their mouths stuffed with gun-powder which was then ignited. Paolo Garnier of Roras was castrated, then skinned alive.
Children were killed in various ways before the eyes of their parents. Those few who escaped to the mountains were mostly killed by exposure, starvation or disease.
Rightardia has pointed out that Christianity was spread in Europe by the point of the sword. We weren't kidding.
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