. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. CASCADE OF THE PIS AT SCHOOL OF THE BARBES AT PRA DEL TORXO, AXGROGXA. The Ministers, or Barbes 57 during the persecutions of the seventeenthcentury and only those books and ancientdocuments sent to the libraries of Cambridgeand Geneva by Pastor Leger were Papists took care after every persecutionto destroy as much of the Waldensian litera-ture as possible. Many of the barbes werelearned men and well versed in the languagesand science of the
. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. CASCADE OF THE PIS AT SCHOOL OF THE BARBES AT PRA DEL TORXO, AXGROGXA. The Ministers, or Barbes 57 during the persecutions of the seventeenthcentury and only those books and ancientdocuments sent to the libraries of Cambridgeand Geneva by Pastor Leger were Papists took care after every persecutionto destroy as much of the Waldensian litera-ture as possible. Many of the barbes werelearned men and well versed in the languagesand science of the Scriptures. A knowledgeof the Bible was the distinctive feature of theancient and is now of the modern Vaudois,and it was so especially of the barbes, allof whom could repeat the Gospels of SaintMatthew and Saint John, and a part of theEpistles from memory. Deprived for centuries of a visible church,and forced to worship in caves and dens, thisintimate knowledge of Gods Word was theironly light. Their school was in the almostinaccessible solitude of a deep mountain gorgecalled Pra del Tor, and their studies weresevere and long-continued, embracing theLati
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