Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
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Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)
Kurtz, J. H. (Johann Heinrich)
Church history
showed that the Waldensians of Brandenburg had evidently
been influenced in their opinions by the Bohemian Taborites,
and that they were constantly in close communion with them,
and Hagen confessed that he had been there ordained by
Fr. Ryss or Reiser to the clerical office. When Hagen
persistently refused to retract, he was delivered over
to the civil authorities for punishment, and was by them
executed, probably at the stake. His three companions
abjured their heresy, and on submitting to church discipline
and wearing clothes marked with the sign of the cross, were
pardoned. Cannemann then proceeded to Angermünde, where in
the city and surrounding country crowds of such heretics
resided; and there he succeeded without great difficulty
in bringing them to abjure their errors and accept the
Catholic confession.--The Waldensians in Bohemia and
Moravia quite voluntarily amalgamated with the “_United
Brethren_” there. The remnants of the German and Swiss
Waldensians may have attached themselves to the Reformation
of the 16th century, but probably for the most part to the
Protestant sects of that age, some joining Schwenkfeld,
and still more going with the Anabaptists, to whom they
were essentially much more closely related than to Luther
or Zwingli.--As to the ultimate fate of the Lombard
Waldensians themselves, we know nothing. Probably many
of them sought escape from the persecutions which raged
against them among the French Waldensians in the valleys
of Piedmont.
§ 119.9A.
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