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Definition of Waldenses

Waldenses
Waldenses Wal*den"ses (?; 277), n. pl. [So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.

Meaning of Waldenses from wikipedia

- The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses (/wɔːlˈdɛnsiːz, wɒl-/), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an...
- of the Old Waldenses Anterior to the Reformation. New York, NY: Macon & Company. Roe, E.T.; Hooker, L.R.; Handford, T.W. (1907). "Waldenses". The New American...
- hunted down adherents of "heretical" religious minorities, such as the Waldenses in the Alps the Cathars in the Languedoc, Anabaptists in Germany, and...
- Apostolic poverty is a Christian doctrine professed in the thirteenth century by the newly formed religious orders, known as the mendicant orders, in direct...
- this lineage include the Montanists, Paulicians, Paterines, Cathari, Waldenses, Albigenses, and Anabaptists. Although there exists variation within successionist...
- baptism, "Waldenses | Description, History, & Beliefs". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2021-10-27. "Pierre Valdo (1140-1217) and the Waldenses". Musée protestant...
- other works, such as Sofia Bompiani's A Short History of the Italian Waldenses (1899), in which Bompiani simply writes that Innocent had "condemned"...
- University Press. p. 65. Tice, P.; Wickliffe, H.J.T.L. (2003). History of the Waldenses: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Book Tree. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-58509-099-0...
- Alps of Savory and Piedmont, including the Protestant Valleys of the Waldenses. London: J. Murray & Son. Audin, Jean-Marie-Vincent (1843). Manuel du...
- ISBN 978-0231096324. Walther, Daniel (1 January 1968). "Were the Albigenses and Waldenses Forerunners of the Reformation?". Andrews University Seminary Studies...