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Waldenses
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Waldenses/Waldensians or Vaudois. Adherents of a reforming movement which began in the 12th cent., in the
Roman Catholic Church and became a
Protestant Church. It originated with a Frenchman, Pierre Valdès ( Peter Waldo), when he obeyed the command of Christ to sell all that he had and give it to the poor (Matthew 19. 21), and set out (much as, in different ways, did
Francis and
Dominic) to recover the Church as Christ intended. When the small group who gathered around him (
‘the poor men of Lyons’) were banned by Pope Lucius III (at the Council of Verona) from unauthorized preaching in 1184, they organized an alternative Church. They continued to be victims of persecution (including the massacre in 1655 which evoked Milton's Sonnet,
‘On the Late Massacre in Piedmont’), but survived long enough to be granted religious freedom in 1848. They number now about 20,000.
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Euan Cameron. Waldenses. Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Euan Cameron. Waldenses. Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval...solved (57ff. and 297ff.). The Waldenses took their name from a certain Valdesius...flock. Still more serious for the Waldenses was the existence of doctrinally heretical...
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Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; par Evan Cameron. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2000. xi, 336 pp. $62.95 U.S. (couverture rigide), $28.95 U.S. (poche). si, depuis une trentaine d'annees, de nombreux travaux ont ete consacres aux vaudois, aucun n'avait, jusqu'a present, pretendu offrir, du moins en anglais, une vue d'ensemble de
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Fortification
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 3/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...whole region was once a refuge to the Waldenses, followers of a 12th-century merchant...him with troops. For centuries, the Waldenses were persecuted, with the result that...Ecrins are gradually shrinking, so the Waldenses' refuge was steadily eroded. The little...
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Waldensian Immigration to Algeria and the Impact on Indigenous Moslems from 1880 to 1920.
Magazine article from: Michigan Academician; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary to my ancestors. [1] Waldenses who were deported from France to Algeria...The thesis of this paper is that the Waldenses immigrants to Algeria, deprived of civil...right to vote in Algeria reminded the Waldenses of their own past. BACKGROUND OF THE...
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Q&A-ITALY: HEAD OF ISLAMIC NGO CALLS FOR INTERRELIGIOUS TALKS.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 11/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...Western Muslims who can represent a pioneer example of what has already happened -- with the first Jews, the first Catholic, Waldenses and orthodox Christians -- showing how it is possible, with patience and intelligence, to build a new intercultural religious...
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FROM THE CHEROKEE TO BLACKBEARD, N.C. OUTDOOR DRAMAS SET FOR 2006
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/28/2006; 700+ words
; ...Tuesday). (252) 583-2261. "From This Day Forward," Old Colony Players, P.O. Box 112, Valdese 28690. Story of the Waldenses, a religious sect that arose in southeast France in the 1100s, their struggle to survive persecution in their homeland and...
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Q&A-ITALY: HEAD OF ISLAMIC NGO CALLS FOR INTERRELIGIOUS TALKS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 11/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Western Muslims who can represent a pioneer example of what has already happened -- with the first Jews, the first Catholic, Waldenses and orthodox Christians -- showing how it is possible, with patience and intelligence, to build a new intercultural religious...
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So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the religious history of the European Middle Ages. Overshadowed by crusade-inspiring Cathars, and more evanescent than Waldenses, Beguins--Franciscan tertiaries, lay adherents of the order's Spiritual wing--have attracted scholarly interest...
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State to offer 21 outdoor dramas in 2007.
Newspaper article from: High Point Enterprise (High Point, NC); 6/19/2007; 695 words
; ...without a trace. -- "From This Day Forward," in Valdese, July 6-Aug. 11, Fridays and Saturdays. It tells of the Waldenses, a religious sect that arose in southeast France in the 1100s, struggled to survive persecution in their homeland and journeyed...
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Union Theological Seminary to Inaugurate Henry Luce III Professorship in Reformation Church History.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 2/5/2003; 633 words
; ...scholarly publications, conferences, and broadcasts, Cameron is the author or editor of several books. His most recent is, "Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe" (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 2000). One of his earliest books, The...
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Waldenses
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Waldenses, also Vaudois . Since the 12th cent. the name ‘Waldenses’ has been applied to several groups...to Catholicism in 1210. By the 1220s there were Waldenses in what is now Germany. It seems that they confined...
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Henri Arnaud
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1641-1721, pastor and leader of the Waldenses . When Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy...league with the French, set out to expel the Waldenses, Arnaud led (1686) a band of the Waldenses into Switzerland. In 1689 he led some of...
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Peter Waldo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...only if the archbishop of Lyons gave them permission. The Waldenses, as they had come to be known, felt that their message was...council in Verona by the next pope, Lucius III, in 1184. The Waldenses continued to live by their understanding of the New Testament...
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Burke Mills, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...and Hickory, North Carolina. The Italian immigrants were Waldenses, pre-Reformation Christians whose religious ancestry dated...armies of both the Italian and the French governments, the Waldenses first sought refuge in the Alpine valleys of Northern Italy...
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Waldo, Peter
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Waldo, Peter (founder of Waldenses): see WALDENSES .
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