. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. _. CHAPTER IX PERSECUTION BEGUN IN THE YEAR I476 The Waldenses have some tradition, orrecord, of thirty-three persecutions, by whichtheir colonies in Calabria, Apuglie, Provence,the Plain of Piedmont, and in the Alps ofFrance were utterly exterminated. Continualexile, martyrdom, and confiscations of theirgoods for many centuries also reduced theirnumbers and their strength in the valleys ofPiedmont. In the year 1308 a synod of fivehundred delegates was held in the va
. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. _. CHAPTER IX PERSECUTION BEGUN IN THE YEAR I476 The Waldenses have some tradition, orrecord, of thirty-three persecutions, by whichtheir colonies in Calabria, Apuglie, Provence,the Plain of Piedmont, and in the Alps ofFrance were utterly exterminated. Continualexile, martyrdom, and confiscations of theirgoods for many centuries also reduced theirnumbers and their strength in the valleys ofPiedmont. In the year 1308 a synod of fivehundred delegates was held in the valley ofAngrogna. The Inquisitors, with their assist-ants, then invaded the valley, but were re-pulsed, and the Roman Catholic prior waskilled in the skirmish. Little is known ofthis and of other persecutions before the year1476, when Yolande, surnamed Violante fromthe violence of her character, the widow ofAmedeus IX., Duke of Savoy, ordered theWaldenses to return immediately to theRoman Church. For no other reason than 64 The Italian Waldenses their belief, she commanded her nobles toreduce these hardy mountaineers to silenc
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