Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Scriptures and were willing to die for them were to
undergo imprisonment, confiscation of property,
and slaughter.
The Albigenses and the Paulicians
About the time of the establishment of the Holy
Roman Empire, if not considerably before, a large
body of evangelical Christians entered Europe
from Asia Minor. These were the Paulicians, for
centuries misrepresented and falsely accused but
lately exonerated. It was because of their earnest
desire to live according to the Epistles of Paul that
they were called Paulicians. They soon spread over
Europe, and although no chronicle records their
dispersion, the fact is attested to by the appearance
of their teachings in many countries of the West.
They joined themselves to migrating groups, and as
J. A. Wy1ie says, “From this time a new life is
seen to animate the efforts of the Waldenses of
Piedmont, the Albigenses of southern France, and
of others who, in other parts of Europe, revolted by
the growing superstitions, had begun to retrace
their steps towards the primeval fountains of
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