It was almost overnight that the news of Archbishop Friedrich being arrested by the Vatican spread throughout Osnabrück.
Soon, a large number of pamphlets mysteriously appeared, totaling twenty to thirty thousand copies.
The pamphlets detailed how the Protestant Friedrich bribed the Vienna authorities to control the Osnabruck Diocese, oppressed Catholic priests, amassed wealth, and had four mistresses.
Indeed, the pamphlets were printed overtime by Security Bureau agents. As for the content, such gossip in the noble circle was not uncommon, and it was quite easy to gather some tidbits and expand them with embellishments.
By that afternoon, angry speakers had taken to the streets, denouncing the "heretic" Friedrich for his evil desecration of the sacred Osnabruck Diocese.
Under their description, the entire congregation of the diocese might be unable to enter heaven after death due to having their souls polluted by the heretic.
