# Persecution Of The Waldensian Brethren, In France, By Pope Urban Vi., A. D. 1365.

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A. D. 1365, it is recorded that Pope Urban VI.
charged all the prelates in France, and the inquisitors
of the faith there, by an express bull, that they
should not suffer the heretics (the Waldenses, who
were then called Beghards and Beguines) to live
with impunity, but should exterminate these erring
spirits (thus he calls these pious people) together
with their errors, with the sickle of ecclesiastical
discipline. See the papistic writer Bzovius, for the
year 1365, art. 8; also, the Calvinist Mellinus, 2d
book, fol. 488, col. 1.

As to how the Waldenses in those times were
called Beghards, and were persecuted, see A. M.,
same book, fol 479, below in the fourth column.

The confession of faith of these people we have
shown in its proper place, and repetition is not
necessary.



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