Carrentian Massacres

Carrentian Massacres
Catholic Patriarch Marcelo Puno being burned at the stake.
Location	Kingdom of Illyricum
Date	January 18, 1624 - May 3, 1625 (1 year, 2 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Target	Cauvunianists, Catholics
Attack type	Genocide, Religious Cleansing
Deaths	c. 450,000
Perpetrators	Appius Carrentus
Motive	Anti-religious sentiment, political power move

The Carrentian Massacres (Illyrian Iberic: Carençaeos Masacreos, Romanyan Iberic: Carrentian Massacrios) were a series of anti-religious attacks and massacres in the Kingdom of Illyricum led by Imperial Regent Appius Carrentus from 1624 to his assassination on May 3, 1625. The massacres killed around 450,000 people, and are the deadliest series of attacks in the history of Illyricum. The attacks stemmed from an outpouring of anti-religious sentiment in Illyricum following the Illyrian War of Succession in the mid sixteenth century and the Cauvunianist Reformation. Appius Carrentus led a coup and overthrew the Cauvunianist regent Mercius Parnethus in 1624, after which he declared "Occedete omnes qui adorant" (Jackian: Kill all who worship). Carrentus was assassinated by King Octavus I on May 3, 1625, who would end the massacres, however the Cauvunianist population never recovered, and the Catholic population only recovered after the Montcrabin colonization of Illyricum in 1660.