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
Statue of Peter Waldo at the Luther Monument in Worms
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
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.
Waldensians
…in the late 12th century, the movement spread to the Cottian Alps in what is today France and Italy. The founding of the Waldensians is attributed to Peter Waldo, a wealthy merchant who gave away his property around 1173, preaching apostolic poverty as the way to perfection. In some aspects the Waldensians of…
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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