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Definition of Waldenses

Waldenses
Waldenses Wal*den"ses (?; 277), n. pl. [So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

Meaning of Waldenses from wikipedia

- The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses (/wɔːlˈdɛnsiːz, wɒl-/), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an...
- of the Old Waldenses Anterior to the Reformation. New York, NY: Macon & Company. Roe, E.T.; Hooker, L.R.; Handford, T.W. (1907). "Waldenses". The New American...
- historical works such as Sofia Bompiani's A Short History of the Italian Waldenses. Faber's book does not quote any primary source, and does not give the...
- Apostolic poverty is a Christian doctrine professed in the thirteenth century by the newly formed religious orders, known as the mendicant orders, in direct...
- hunted down adherents of "heretical" religious minorities, such as the Waldenses in the Alps the Cathars in the Languedoc, Anabaptists in Germany, and...
- called Waldenses who came to America in 1893 and founded the community of Valdese after suffering religious ****cution in Europe. Waldenses were ****cuted...
- out seven beneficiaries: the Italian State, the Catholic Church, the Waldenses, the Jewish Communities, the Lutherans, the Seventh-day Adventist Church...
- baptism, "Waldenses | Description, History, & Beliefs". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27. "Pierre Valdo (1140-1217) and the Waldenses". Musée protestant...
- Pâques vaudoises) was a series of m****acres on Waldensians (also known as Waldenses or Vaudois) by Savoyard troops in the Duchy of Savoy in 1655. Alexis Muston...
- Retrieved 2023-03-10. Comba, E.; Comba, T. E. (1889). History of the Waldenses of Italy: From Their Origin to the Reformation. ATLA monograph preservation...