# Peter Bruis, Burnt At St. Giles; Henry Of Toulouse Apprehended And Put Out Of The Way, By The Pope’S Legate; And Many Other Persons Put To Death At Paris, For The True Evangelical Doctrine; About The Years 1145, 1147.

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Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: PETER BRUIS, BURNT AT ST. GILES; HENRY OF TOULOUSE APPREHENDED AND PUT OUT OF THE WAY, BY THE POPE’S LEGATE; AND MANY OTHER PERSONS PUT TO DEATH AT PARIS, FOR THE TRUE EVANGELICAL DOCTRINE; ABOUT THE YEARS 1145, 1147.

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P. J. Twisck gives the following account in his
Chronijck, for the year 1145: “About this time
there were famous in France, Peter Bruis, formerly
a priest, and his disciple, Henry of Toulouse; both
had been monks, were learned men, and greatly
censured the papal errors, sparing neither great nor
small. They called the Pope the prince of Sodom,
and the city of Rome the mother of all unrighteousness,
abomination, and execration. They spoke
against the mass, images, pilgrimages, and other
institutions of the Roman church. They renounced
infant baptism, saying that none but the believing
were entitled to baptism.

When Peter had preached about twenty years,
namely, from before the year 1126 until 1145, the
people flocking to him in great numbers, he was
finally publicly burnt in the city of St. Giles, also
called St. Aegidius.

His disciple Henry, who followed him in the doctrine,
was intercepted and apprehended some time
after by the legate of the Pope, and put out of the
way, so that his fate is not known. This is held to
have occurred two years after the death of Peter
Bruis, namely A. D. 1147.

After their death a cruel persecution arose against
all those who had followed their doctrine, many of
whom went joyfully to meet death. In short, however
assiduously the popes with all their shaven
heads aided by princes and secular magistrates,
exerted themselves to exterminate them, first, by
disputations, then by banishment and papal excommunications
and anathemas, proclamation of crusades,
indulgences, and pardons to all those who
should do violence157 to said people, and, finally, by
all manner of torment, fire, gallows, and cruel
bloodshedding, yea, so that the whole world was in
commotion on account of it; yet, could they not
prevent this persuasion from spreading everywhere,
and going forth into every country and kingdom,
holding their worship secretly as well as openly,
with great or small numbers, according to the tyranny,
cruelty or persuasion of the times, and continuing
until the year 1304; of whom over a hundred
persons were put to death, or burnt, at Paris;
and thus their descendants, as history states, continued,
though under much tribulation, until this
time. P. J. Twisck, Chron., page 450, from Philip
Marnix Tafer, 3d part, cap. 12, fol. 141, 142.
Merula, fol. 748, 853. Hist. Mart. Doopsg., fol. 15.
Also, Introduction, page 49.





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