When the “heretics” were brought before the Inquisitors of the Vatican, were they given the option of receiving a tattoo (mark) or be tortured to death? No. To survive, to continue to buy and sell, all they had to do was renounce their faith and accept the ‘mark of the Pope’ (the anti-Christ) and His authority as God on earth.

Quote: “He compels subjection to the secular power, especially to its new head, that head which had been slain and healed. He establishes an idolatrous worship of that head, or a submission to it as Divine in authority. He ” exercises ” all the power of the ten-horned beast in his warfare against the saints and servants of God. He works false miracles, and accomplishes lying wonders, and even brings down fire upon earth in imitation of the prophets of the Lord ; that is, he causes Judgments to descend on those who resist. He uses the instrument of excommunication, a weapon of celestial authority, and wields it with terrible effect. He lays kingdoms under interdicts, and nations under anathemas. He makes idolatry compulsory, delivering to the secular arm all who refuse to render it, that they may be put to death.

He prohibits all dealings with so called “heretics,” all traffic and communion ‘with them. He allows none to buy from them, and none to sell to them. He institutes the system which is now called ” boycotting” a system of persecution which was freely wielded by the Popish priesthood in the middle ages, and is still employed, as we know, in certain Papal lands.” Source: Romanism and the Reformation by H. Grattan Guinness (Page 157-158 – https://archive.org/stream/romanismreformat00guinuoft#page/156/mode/2up)