Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

the attitude of Christians in Spain on Sabbath
observance, the evidence is clear. Canon 26 of the
Council of Elvira reveals that the Church of Spain
at that time kept Saturday, the seventh day. “As to
fasting every Sabbath: Resolved, that the error be
corrected of fasting every Sabbath.”[32] This
resolution of the council is in direct opposition to
the policy the church at Rome had inaugurated, that
of commanding Sabbath as a fast day in order to
humiliate it and make it repugnant to the
people.[33]
What connection is there between these facts
and the early Waldenses? It is this: that while for
centuries Christianity in Spain was one, yet when
the encroachments by Rome on these primitive
Christians in Spain began, the people of the
Pyrenees separated themselves from the errors that
crept in upon them. Robert Robinson writes that
the people living in the valleys in different
countries became known as the “valley dwellers,”
or Vallenses. In fact, this author states his belief
that the inhabitants of the Pyrenees were the true
original Waldenses.[34] The original word is the
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