Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Bartholomew from Carcassone in the country of
Narbon in France, unto whom they all flocked, ...
and he created bishops, and ordained churches.[22]
Protestantism a Glorious Fruit of
Waldensianism
In A.D. 1517, the dawn of the Protestant
Reformation came to Europe. Protestantism was
not so much a separation from the Church of Rome
as it was a revival of apostolic doctrines so long
held by the Waldenses. Protestantism was a
spiritual expansion of the Church in the
Wilderness. Of the remaining evangelical churches
which had come down from the days of the
apostles, the Waldenses were the purest and the
most prominent. James D. McCabe writes
concerning the delegates of early Reformers sent to
a synodal assembly of the Waldenses:
Thus the time passed on until the Reformation
dawned upon the world. The Vaudois were well
pleased at this general awakening of the human
mind. They entered into correspondence with the
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