# Severe Persecution Of The Anabaptist Waldenses In France, About A. D. 1280.

c. 1280 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SEVERE PERSECUTION OF THE ANABAPTIST WALDENSES IN FRANCE, ABOUT A. D. 1280.

Source heading; not independently verified

P. J. Twisck, having noticed, in the first part of
his Chronijck, for the year 1280, the doctrine of the
Waldenses, whom he calls Waldois, after their
leader, Peter Waldus, finally he speaks of their
persecutions, saying: “Matthias Illyricus, in his
Register of the witnesses of the truth, says, that he
has in his possession the consultations of certain
advocates of Avignon, also, of the three bishops of
Narbonne, Arles, and Aix, and of the bishop of
Alban, tending to the extermination of the Waldois,
or Waldenses, and written three hundred years
previously; from which it is evident, that at that
time and before, a great number of the believers
were scattered here and there throughout France.

“We can also infer from the consultations of the
aforesaid archbishops, that even as their number
was great, so was also the persecution against them
very cruel; for at the end of this consultation it is
written: ‘Who is so great a stranger in France, as
to be ignorant of the damnatory sentence (thus
speak these papists themselves) which has now, for
a long time, been most justly used against these
heretical Waldois (Waldenses); and should we
doubt a matter so notorious and common, which
has cost the Catholics so much money, sweat, and
labor, and has been sealed with so many condemnations
and executions of unbelievers (thus he calls
the true believers)?’

“Hence appears,” writes Twisck, “what massacres
of believers occurred at this time, and what
cruelties the subjects of antichrist employed against
them. ‘And it can be proven,’ says Boxhorn, ‘even
from the testimony of their greatest enemies, that
they declared, maintained, and testified in the midst
of the fire, that they had received this their faith
unaltered, from hand to hand, from the times of the
apostles; and they continue even to the present
time, having never been entirely exterminated.’ ”
P. J. Twisck, Chron., p. 606, col. 1, 2.





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