>the papacy persecuted the saints

Remember that it is the 11th horn--Justinian I-- that is to persecute the saints for a time and times and half a time.

The 11th horn institutes new laws and a calendar. The Justinian Code established
the patriarch of Rome as above all religious authorities (within the laws of an empire by enforcement of a military--much different than previous self-declared notes among divided patriarchs in councils). This Code lasted in the White world for a time and times and half a time until Napoleon, matching Daniel 7 (along with the other descriptions of the 11th horn fitting Justinian I).
Toward the end of the Justinian Code's time, the Medici (((banking))) family started sitting family members in the papacy, as well as shabbos friends. The jews of Europe had much relaxed on their existence cohencidentally, when the series of (((banking))) family popes--with the authority of yay or naying coronations, "excommunicating," or even "directly condemning to hell"--had power.

Napoleon arresting the pope wasn't much different than Hitler arresting the Rothschild.

For more info, just peruse "Medici jew" even on kosher sites and see how much they love that period.

That was the persecution of the saints. The (((enemy of God))) sat upon the papacy and started to gain foothold due to that. It has bloomed ever since into the stanglehold they have today.