Peter Waldo
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Peter Waldo was a French merchant and later preacher who founded Waldensianism, a mendicant ascetic sect which separated from the Roman Catholic Church.
Statue of Peter Waldo at the Luther Monument in Worms, Germany
Waldo (as Valdes de Lyon) honoured with John Wycliffe and Jan Hus on the Reformation Wall, Geneva.
Waldo depicted as a gargoyle on Lyon Cathedral: he is depicted with a hollow head, like a madman, preaching towards the sky, instead of prostrating himself before God.
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Waldensians
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The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses, Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Orig
Peter Waldo
…Valdes, Waldes; French: Pierre Vaudès, de Vaux; Latin: Petrus Waldus, Valdus; c. 1140 – c. 1205) was a French merchant and later preacher who founded Waldensianism (then called the "Poor of Lyon"), a mendicant ascetic sect which separated from the Roman Catholic Church. The tradition that his first name was "Peter…
Illustrations depicting Waldensians as witches in Le champion des dames, by Martin Le France, 1451
Piedmontese children forced from their parents
Massacre of the Mérindol Waldensians in 1545