History Of The Waldenses

Table Of Contents:

THE WALDENSES –THEIR VALLEYS
THE WALDENSES— THEIR THEOLOGY AND MISSIONARY LABORS
FIRST PERSECUTIONS OF THE WALDENES
CATANEO’S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE DAUPHINESE AND PIEMONTESE CONFESSORS
FAILURE OF CATANEO’S EXPEDITION
SUNOD IN THE WALDENSIAN VALLEYS
PERSECUTIONS AND MARTYRDOMS
PREPARATIONS FOR A WAR OF EXTERMINATION
THE GREAT CAMPAIGN OF 1561
WALDEDSIAN COLONIES IN CALABRIA AND APULIA
EXTINCTION OF WALDENSES IN CALABRIA
THE GREAT MASSACRE
EXPLOITS OF GIANAVELLO—MASSACRE AND PILLAGE OF RORA
THE EXILE
RETURN TO THE VALLEYS
FINAL REESTABLISHMENT IN THE VALLEYS
CONDITION OF THE WALDENSES FROM 1690

Additional Info
The Waldenes were among the first of the people of Europe to obtain a translation of the Holy Scriptures. Hundreds of years before the Reformation they possesed the Bible in manuscript in their native tongue. Here the light of truth was kept burning amid the darkness of the Middle Ages. Here, for a thousand years, witnesses for the truth maintained the ancient faith.