Missions and the church . fl. ANCIENT CHURCHES 29 an army under the papal legate, Albert Cataneo, anarchdeacon. Pardon and booty were promised toall who would help in this warfare, and a motleycrowd of 20,000 men set out to murder were plundered and burned and the inhab-itants put to the sword. In the mountain passesthey were able to withstand the onward rush ofthe murderers but for a time, when they appeared inother parts. There was a great cave far up in themountains into which over 3,000 unarmed men andwomen fled for refuge. The soldiers found them,and built a big fire in
Missions and the church . fl. ANCIENT CHURCHES 29 an army under the papal legate, Albert Cataneo, anarchdeacon. Pardon and booty were promised toall who would help in this warfare, and a motleycrowd of 20,000 men set out to murder were plundered and burned and the inhab-itants put to the sword. In the mountain passesthey were able to withstand the onward rush ofthe murderers but for a time, when they appeared inother parts. There was a great cave far up in themountains into which over 3,000 unarmed men andwomen fled for refuge. The soldiers found them,and built a big fire in front of the cave, so that thosewho were not slain by the sword, or thrown intothe blazing fire as they tried to escape, were smoth-ered to death within. Yet God saved from theirhand a remnant, who continued faithful to him. The Piedmontese Easter. About a week beforeEaster of 1655 an army was sent to subjugate theheretics in the valleys. They were withstood by afew brave men, and so made a proposition for this the p
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