# About Eighty Persons Called Waldenses, Burnt For The Faith, At Strasburg, A. D. 1215.

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Now, when the throne of antichrist began to suffer
much detriment through the doctrine of the Waldenses,
and infant baptism, the swearing of oaths,
the secular power and dominion, the authority of
the Pope of Rome, the mass, purgatory, absolution
or forgiveness of sins by the so-called clergy, pilgrimages,
visitations of the holy sepulchres prayers,
or sacrifices for the dead, and other things pertaining
to popery, were opposed by them, they saying,
that these things ought to have no place in the true
church of Christ; it came to pass, A. D. 1215, that
this cruel man, Conrad of Marpurg, of whom it
was stated, for the year 1214, that he had been sent
into Germany, as grand inquisitor, by Pope Innocent
III., apprehended over eighty persons, both
men and women, who were called Waldenses and
made the same confession. They were also examined,
concerning their faith, in that horrible manner
of which we have already spoken, namely, by taking
a red-hot iron into their bare hands; and having
all of them endured it patiently, and remaining
steadfast, they were finally condemned to be burnt
alive as heretics; which was done to them all on the
same day, at Strasburg, in said year of their apprehension,
A. D. 1215.

Of this the papistic writer Trithemius gives the
following account: “At this time, namely A. D.
1215, there were very many who were heretics secretly,
men as well as women, who spread divers
strange errors throughout all Germany, France,
and Italy; of whom great numbers were apprehended
and burnt alive. For in said year more than
eighty were apprehended in Strasburg, at the same
time, among whom but very few were found innocent;
for if any of them denied the heresy,[175](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/part-13/#Footnote_175) Conrad
of Marpurg, the Pope’s inquisitor, would try them
by giving them a red-hot iron into their hands, and
deliver all those that were burnt by it, to the secular
judge, as heretics, to be sentenced to the fire.”
Trith. Chron. Hirsaug. Also, A. Mell., 2d book,
fol. 459. C. Mellinus calls these martyrs Waldenses,
fol. 457, col. 3; and their confession he has shown,
fol. 446, col. 1, 2.



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