. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. Chapter Page XVI. Martyrs 120 XVII. Women . „ 130 XVIII. Friends —General Beckwith 140 XIX. Emancipation in 1848 148 XX. 1889. — Bi-Centenary of Glorious Return 156 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Map of the Waldensian Valleys ; the Churches and Stations of the Mission . . FrontispieceTorre Pellice, the Capital of the Valleys To face p. 5Entrance to Torre Pellice, Roman Catholic Church 15 Waldensian Church at San Giovanni .... 23 Cascade of the Pis at Massello 57 School
. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. Chapter Page XVI. Martyrs 120 XVII. Women . „ 130 XVIII. Friends —General Beckwith 140 XIX. Emancipation in 1848 148 XX. 1889. — Bi-Centenary of Glorious Return 156 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Map of the Waldensian Valleys ; the Churches and Stations of the Mission . . FrontispieceTorre Pellice, the Capital of the Valleys To face p. 5Entrance to Torre Pellice, Roman Catholic Church 15 Waldensian Church at San Giovanni .... 23 Cascade of the Pis at Massello 57 School of the Barbes at PrA del Torno, An- grogna . 57 Waldensian Church at Angrogna 62 From Angrogna to PrA del Torno 67 Angrogna 75 Route of Return of Waldensian People from Switzerland through Savoy 87 Portrait of Catinat 89 Portrait of Henri Arnaud 91 Portrait of Victor Amedeus, Duke of Savoy and Prince of Piedmont 93 From an engraving by De lAmerssini, published in Paris, 1684. Prangins, Lake Leman, from a print . . 115 Siege of Balsiglia, from an old print .... 157 Waldensian Residence and Museum 159 Badges 159. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN WALDENSES CHAPTER I THE ISRAEL OF THE ALPS In the valleys of the Cottian Alps, betweenMount Cenis and Mount Viso, a Bible-lovingpeople have lived from time have been persecuted and exiled by theBible-hating power which has its seat inRome; but after exile they returned to theirgreen valleys, and after persecution they werenot destroyed. Now, like a healthy vinewhich has its roots in those valleys, thebranches of this primitive Church spread outover all the Italian peninsula. It has churches in all the great cities, —in Turin, Milan, Venice, Florence, Genoa,Rome, Naples, Palermo, Messina, and evenat Vittoria, a small town at the extremity ofSicily. It has forty-four pastors and fifty- 2 The Italian Waldenses four hundred members in the mission churchesof the peninsula, and twenty-two pastors andthirteen thousand five
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