# Great Persecution Of The Believing Waldenses On The Baltic Sea; Four Hundred And Forty-Three Of Them Severely Tortured And Put To Death, In The Mark And Pomerania, About A. D. 1390.

c. 1390 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: GREAT PERSECUTION OF THE BELIEVING WALDENSES ON THE BALTIC SEA; FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE OF THEM SEVERELY TORTURED AND PUT TO DEATH, IN THE MARK AND POMERANIA, ABOUT A. D. 1390.

Source heading; not independently verified

About the year 1390 there began, in the countries
on the Baltic Sea, the very severe persecution of the
Waldenses, of which we made mention of our account
of the true faith in the fourteenth century;
which, continuing until into the year 1391, was the
cause that, among very many others, four hundred
and forty-three of these people, whose names are
mentioned, in Pomerania, the Mark, and the adjacent
places, were brought to torture or the rack;
who, refusing to apostatize, freely confessed their
faith, and how many long years they had believed
and confessed the truth of their faith, which was
called a heresy. They are stated to have been sober
and frugal people, discreet in their speech, careful
to avoid lying, swearing, etc. Second book of the
History of the Persecutions, fol. 505, col. 3, 4, ex
Catal. Test. Verit., lib. 18. Matt. Flacc. Illyr.,
lib. 15. Tit. de Waldensibus. Vignier recutil de
histoire de l’Église, A. D. 1391.

Note.—It seems that these people were not only
persecuted and tortured for the faith, but also put
to death; according to the account of P. J. Twisck,
who says: “Of the believers or Waldenses more
than four hundred and forty were apprehended and
put to death for their religion, in the countries of
Saxony and Pomerania, whose confession showed
that they had received that doctrine from their parents,
and that their teachers came to Bohemia; and
the proceedings in their trial shows among other
things that they were sober, and discreet in their
speech, carefully avoiding lying, swearing, and all
dishonorable practices.189 P. J. Twisck, Chron.,
page 743, B., from Henr. Boxh., fol. 27.





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