Protestantism in the Waldensian Valleys - James Aitken Wylie

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the strongest refuge which their hills afforded. There, too, he expected to be joined by the corps which he had sent round by Lucerna to make the circuit of the Valleys, and after devastating Prali and San Martino, to climb the mountain barrier and join their companions in the "Pra," little imagining that the soldiers he had dispatched on that errand of massacre were now enriching with their corpses the Valleys they had been sent to subdue.[1] In that same spot where the Barbes had so often met in synod, and enacted rules for the government of their Church and the spread of their faith, the Papal legate would reunite his victorious host, and finish the campaign by proclaiming that now the Waldensian heresy, root and branch, was extinct. The Waldenses–their humble supplication for peace having been contemptuously rejected, as we have already said–had three courses in their choice–to go to mass, to be butchered as sheep, or to fight for their lives. They chose the last, and made ready for battle. But first they must remove to a place of safety all who were unable to bear arms. 42
Packing up their kneading-troughs, their ovens, and other culinary utensils, laying their aged on their shoulders, and their sick in couches, and leading their children by the hand, they began to climb the hills, in the direction of the Pra del Tor, at the head of the Val di Angrogna. Transporting their household stuff, they could be seen traversing the rugged paths, and making the mountains resound with psalms, which they sweetly sung as they journeyed up the ascent. Those who remained busied themselves in manufacturing pikes and other weapons of defense and attack, in repairing the barricades, in arranging themselves into fighting parties, and assigning to the various corps the posts they were to defend. Cataneo now put his soldiers in motion. Advancing to near the town of La Torre, they made a sharp turn to the right, and entered the Val di Angrogna. Its opening offers no obstruction, being soft and even as any meadow in all England. Byand-by it beans to swell into the heights of Roccomaneot, where the Vaudois had resolved to 43
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Page 3 and 4: the Waldensian faith and worship ex
Page 5 and 6: Reformation, and which were, in fac
Page 7 and 8: across the mountains, and attack th
Page 9 and 10: it complains that synods, which the
Page 11 and 12: Therefore the Papal thunder sometim
Page 13 and 14: themselves sufficiently protected b
Page 15 and 16: not shaken, they still refused to e
Page 17 and 18: any property they might have illega
Page 19 and 20: ignorant of the commotion it had ex
Page 21 and 22: Chapter 2 Cataneo's Expedition Agai
Page 23 and 24: clambered over before one can reach
Page 25 and 26: Val Loyse. Cataneo distributed the
Page 27 and 28: to the fifteenth century."[3] This
Page 29 and 30: advanced up the long avenue that le
Page 31 and 32: town of La Torre, situated on the a
Page 33 and 34: in a flood of silver along the vall
Page 35 and 36: y this time have finished their wor
Page 37 and 38: abysses, while spiky pinnacles peer
Page 39 and 40: The weapons of the Vaudois were rud
Page 41: Chapter 3 Failure of Cataneo's Expe
Page 45 and 46: At the instant an arrow from the bo
Page 47 and 48: found all entrance. Some convulsion
Page 49 and 50: the pass. Will thunder-bolts and ha
Page 51 and 52: olled over the precipice, and crush
Page 53 and 54: Turin, who being admitted into the
Page 55 and 56: enduring for days the agony of a li
Page 57 and 58: Papists."9 To obtain this credentia
Page 59 and 60: Churches of Provence and Dauphine c
Page 61 and 62: I know your weakness, but it become
Page 63 and 64: from their visit to the Reformers o
Page 65 and 66: secretly inclined to the Roman supe
Page 67 and 68: the site occupied by this little to
Page 69 and 70: Another sign of the new life that n
Page 71 and 72: of Calvin, was asked to undertake t
Page 73 and 74: Chapter 5 Persecutions and Martyrdo
Page 75 and 76: of the priests, being solicited by
Page 77 and 78: pastors. Martin Gonin, of Angrogna
Page 79 and 80: The martyr who died thus heroically
Page 81 and 82: the distaff. His steps were tracked
Page 83 and 84: peace and prosperity, the Church of
Page 85 and 86: death. We have already mentioned th
Page 87 and 88: edict forbidding his subjects to he
Page 89 and 90: And now we behold it at the foot of
Page 91 and 92: heresy, most willingly would they s
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is the pure Word of God, as we are
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visited! In fine, they reminded the
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All-just God, before whose tribunal
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Chapter 6 Preparations for a War of
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The tocsin was rung out from the Mo
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not abandon his idea of conciliatio
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on the measures to be taken at this
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on the right, and the spurs of Mont
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and fled, chased by the Waldenses,
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they were reasonable men; he would
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Valley of Pragelas. This difficult
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The corn and oil and wine which he
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Chapter 7 The Great Campaign of 156
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Assembling on a plateau of snow fac
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transaction. Immediately beneath wa
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accompanying the troops in their ig
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their herds and provisions remained
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an army. The road by which the sold
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attacking party was making its way
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soldiers.[6] There came a regiment
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and clemency whatever victories the
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the first two of the enemy turned t
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through the Count La Trinita, but t
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carousing, from blaspheming, from m
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Chapter 8 Waldensian Colonies in Ca
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this settlement, "clothed with all
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the marvel and the envy of their ne
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taste and genius for which the Roma
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fidelity their stipulated tithes; a
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to Rome and so far from me." They p
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His brother, Bartolomeo, having obt
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5. Perrin, Histoire des Vaudois, p.
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the town in a body, and retired to
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Waldenses offered to emigrate; but
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precipitated over cliffs; others we
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as a butcher does the sheep which h
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along. But what shout is this which
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victim. There sits a calm courage o
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mausoleum than ever Rome raised to
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more at noon or at eve beneath the
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the sides of their mountains, and t
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In their extremity they sought the
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not certainly know, but from about
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they succeeded a year of partial fa
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spring (1631) it rose up again in r
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Footnotes: 1. Muston, chapter 16. M
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Valleys and mountain-sides to be br
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eagerly challenging the pasters to
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Propaganda Fidei" (for the Propagat
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usiness was falling off, or of a ge
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Lucerua, Fenile, Bubiana, Bricheras
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to bless God that I had seen accomp
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knocking at the door of the marquis
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20th, a series of skirmishes took p
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throughout the valleys. They hung u
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The soldiers were not content with
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convey so correct an idea of the ho
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that their very atrocity would make
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the scattered survivors, in order t
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astonishme:at and sorrow he felt at
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The law that indissolubly links gre
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17. Leger, part 2, p. 112. 18. The
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Chapter 12 Exploits of Gianavello -
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mere dot, hardly visible; and yonde
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day which saw the butchery commence
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ethren, repaired to the Marquis di
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nothing to fear. No sooner were the
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movement of the main body. He march
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There was now nothing more in the V
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Gianavello had saved from the wreck
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We cannot go into details. Prodigie
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Duke of Savoy. In addition, Cromwel
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murderers, who are already drunk wi
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contain two clauses that astonished
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Chapter 13 The Exile AFTER the grea
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told that he must extirpate Protest
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meetings, under pain of death, and
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Vaudois had inhabited the Valleys f
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them. So desperate did their situat
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indiscriminate and exterminating ve
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train her boughs and prune her luxu
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Well, at length the persecutor loos
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traveler. Strewed along the track w
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Chapter 14 Return to the Valleys WE
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their portal, and the meadow in fro
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To extinguish all hopes of their re
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pastor, but the troubles of his nat
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with great misgivings, for the nume
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the French could only use the butt-
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pyramid of Monte Viso looking down
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pastor, mounting a table which was
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Chapter 15 Final Re-establishment i
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y one another, and never to lay dow
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peaks. It is closed at the western
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as if proudly conscious of having o
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loss of not one man to the defender
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Vaudois eyes, provided ahnost as mi
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the French army. There can be no do
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the cannonading continued, and its
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Captain Poulat, a native of these p
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the overture that met them in the P
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Chapter 16 Condition of the Waldens
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in vain. In 1692 there were twelve
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The century passed without any very
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that which belongs to the life of I
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The once goodly limits of their Val
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The Revolution of 1848, with trumpe
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mental courage and practical habits
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Who can fail to see in this drama,
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