History of the WaldensesWylie, J. A. (James Aitken)
History
History of the Waldenses
Wylie, J. A. (James Aitken)
Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Waldenses
[18] The bull is given in full in Leger, who also says
that he had made a faithful copy of it, and lodged
it with other documents in the University Library of
Cambridge. (_Hist. Gén. des Eglises Vaud._, part ii.,
pp. 7-15.)
[19] Muston, _Israel of the Alps_, p. 10.
[20] Leger, livr. ii., p. 7.
[21] Leger, livr. ii., p. 26
[22] Monastier, p. 128.
[23] Muston, p. 20.
[24] Muston, part ii., p. 234.
[25] Monastier, p. 129.
[26] Monastier, p. 130.
[27] Monastier, pp. 133-4.
[28] Monastier, p. 134.
[29] The Author was shown this pool when he visited the
chasm. None of the Waldensian valleys is better
illustrated by the sad, yet glorious, scenes of their
martyrdom than this Valley of Angrogna. Every rock in
it has its story. As you pass through it you are shown
the spot where young children were dashed against the
stones--the spot where men and women, stripped naked,
were rolled up as balls, and precipitated down the
mountain, and where, caught by the stump of tree,
or projecting angle of rock, they hung transfixed,
enduring for days the agony of a living death. You are
shown the entrance of caves, into which some hundreds
of the Vaudois having fled, their enemies, lighting a
fire at the mouth of their hiding place, ruthlessly
killed them all. Time would fail to tell even a tithe
of what has been done and suffered in this famous pass.
[30] Muston, p. 11.
[31] Leger, livr. ii., p. 26.
[32] _Ibid._
[33] Leger and Gilles say that it was Philip VII. who put
an end to this war. Monastier says they “are mistaken,
for this prince was then in France, and did not begin
to reign till 1496.” This peace was granted in 1489.
[34] Monastier, _Hist. of the Vaudois_, p. 138.
[35] Monastier, _Hist. of the Vaudois_, p. 138.
[36] Gilles, p. 30. Monastier, p. 141.
[37] Ruchat, tom. iii., pp. 176, 557.
[38] _Hist. of the Vaud._, p. 146.
[39] It is entitled, says Leger, “_A Brief Confession of
Faith made by the Pastors and Heads of Families of
the Valleys of Piedmont_.” “It is preserved,” he
adds, “with other documents, in the Library of the
University of Cambridge.” (_Hist. des Vaud._, livr.
i., p. 95.)
[40] Gilles, p. 40. Monastier, p. 146.
[41] George Morel states, in his _Memoirs_, that at this
time there were more than 800,000 persons of the
religion of the Vaudois. (Leger, _Hist. des Vaudois_,
livr. ii., p. 27.) He includes, of course, in this
estimate the Vaudois in the Valleys, on the plain of
Piedmont, in Naples and Calabria, in the South of
France, and in the countries of Germany.
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