. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. ny-particular facts, but contented himself withsaying that there were persons yet livingwho remembered that their fathers did so andso. When pressed to be more explicit, hewould say that he meant not to defame theWaldenses; but these were things he had seenwritten in a book, the author of which hehad forgotten or would not name. But manybishops, priests, monks, and historians of theRoman Catholic Church have testified to thehonesty and good conduct of the barbes, and
. A short history of the Italian Waldenses who have inhabited the valleys of the Cottian Alps from ancient times to the present. ny-particular facts, but contented himself withsaying that there were persons yet livingwho remembered that their fathers did so andso. When pressed to be more explicit, hewould say that he meant not to defame theWaldenses; but these were things he had seenwritten in a book, the author of which hehad forgotten or would not name. But manybishops, priests, monks, and historians of theRoman Catholic Church have testified to thehonesty and good conduct of the barbes, andalso to their piety towards God and theircharity to men, admitting that their onlyfault was denying the authority of HolyMother Church, and not acknowledging itas the true Church nor its superstitions asmeans of salvation. Pierre Gilles, the historian of the Waldensesin the sixteenth century, says that so manybooks written by the pastors in various placesand during many centuries testify in whatesteem they held virtue and good works andwhat hatred they felt for every form of many of these books were lost. CASCADE OF THE PIS AT MASSELLO.
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