# Herman, Andrew And Guillemette181 Exhumed And Burnt, A. D. 1299.

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A. D. 1299, the Fratricelli, that is, the Albi-Waldenses,
who were called Little Brothers, were
declared heretics, by Pope Boniface VIII., because
their belief was contrary to the Roman church, as
we have already shown. Said Pope caused these
Fratricelli (or Albigenses) to be persecuted with so
much violence that he not only spared not the
living, but not even the dead; for he caused one
Herman, who had been one of their principal
teachers, to be exhumed twenty years after his
death, and his bones burnt to ashes, notwithstanding
the papists, who were his enemies, had, in his
life time, regarded him as a holy man. Thus they
did also with the dead bodies of one Andrew, and
of his wife Guillemette, who were also greatly noted
for their remarkable godliness.

The Fratricelli (or Albi-Waldenses) were nevertheless,
though unjustly, accused of many and
abominable crimes. Hence, many of the ancients
presume that these slanders were invented against
them for the express purpose of making them the
objects of the hatred and envy of the people; since
they [the slanders] were utterly antagonistic to
the doctrine which they professed, and with their
life. For it is recorded of them, that they called
themselves true followers of the apostles, and the
true church of Christ, and that they on their part
reproved the corrupt morals of the prelates. There
were also ascribed to them all the opinions, or articles
of faith, of the Waldenses who, as already
shown, also rejected infant baptism, the swearing
of oaths, revenge towards enemies, the mass, and
almost all the superstitions of the Roman church;
hence it is probable, that they were of their persuasion
and had only given themselves different
names, according to the different places where they
resided. In the second book of the Hist. of the
Persecutions, fol. 471, col. 2, from Trithem., Chron.,
Hirsaug., A. D. 1299. Also, Vignier, A. D. 1298.
Hist. Eccl., ex Platina, Sabellico, Mari. Hist. Antonino
Bernhardo de Lutzenb. Bal. Cent. 4, Script.
Brittan. Append. 2, ad Joan Rufum, page 384.



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