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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...
- 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...
- hunted down adherents of "heretical" religious minorities, such as the Waldenses in the Alps the Cathars in the Languedoc, Anabaptists in Germany, and...
- ISBN 978-0-19-954785-2. Cameron, Euan (1984). The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480–1580. Clarendon Press. Cantoni, Davide (May 2012). "Adopting...
- Alps of Savory and Piedmont, including the Protestant Valleys of the Waldenses. London: J. Murray & Son. Audin, Jean-Marie-Vincent (1843). Manuel du...
- 2000, p. 252. Walther, Daniel (1 January 1968). "Were the Albigenses and Waldenses Forerunners of the Reformation?". Andrews University Seminary Studies...
- baptism, "Waldenses | Description, History, & Beliefs". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27. "Pierre Valdo (1140-1217) and the Waldenses". Musée protestant...