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  Vaudois travel: Visit, Maps, History, France - Provence Beyond
The Vaudois were members of a Christian sect founded at Lyon in 1179 by Pierre Valdo.
Most of the Vaudois parishes were located in the Alpine valleys of the Piedmont: Lucerna, Perouse and San Martino, known as Les Vallees Vaudoises (the Protestant Valleys of Piedmont).
One attack by 1200 soldiers was defeated by 50 Vaudois.
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 THE VAUDOIS AND THEIR VALLEYS
Wherever a Vaudois foot trod, the soil was polluted, and had to be cleansed; wherever a Vaudois breathed, the air was tainted, and must be purified; wherever Vaudois psalm or prayer ascended, there was the infection of heresy; and around the spot a cordon must be drawn to protect the spiritual health of the district.
The terrible stroke that fell on the Vale of Loyse was the shielding of the neighboring valleys of Argentiere and Fraissiniere.
While the Vaudois as a race were prosperous, their churches mutliplying, and their faith extending it geographical area from one area to another, individual Vaudois were being at times seized, and put to death, at the stake, on the rack, or by the cord.
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 The Vaudois
The Vaudois held the holy Scriptures to be the source of faith and religion, without regard to the authority of the fathers or to tradition; and though they principally used the New Testament, yet, as Usher proves from Reinier and others, they regarded the Old also as canonical scripture.
The gallant viscount of Alby and Beziers was a hopeless prisoner in the iron grasp of Montfort.
Horror was heaped upon horror, until the benumbed and decimated Vaudois began to creep with languid footsteps across the borders of a territory surrendered to the ravage of demoniacs into happier lands.
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 Chapter 17
On the 29th of October, an assault was made on the Vaudois position, which was repulsed with great slaughter of the enemy, and the loss of not one man to the defenders.
All through the winter of 1689-90, the Vaudois remained in their mountain fortress, resting after the marches, battles, and sieges of the previous months, and preparing for the promised return of the French.
The Vaudois had escaped and were gone, and might be seen upon the distant mountains, climbing the snows far out of reach of their would-be captors.
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 CHAPTER XXI
Speaking of the Nobia Leycon, the Vaudois confession, and other manuscripts of which he has just been speaking, he says: ‘There is, however, farther evidence brought forth fur the antiquity of the Vaudois doctrines.
They were called Vaudois or Waldenses — (men of the valleys); and, as the preaching of Peter may probably have confirmed their opinions and cemented their discipline, he acquired and deserved his surname by residing among them.
Vaudois to have enjoyed the uninterrupted integrity of  the faith even from the apostolic ages; others suppose them to have been disciples of Claudius Turin, the evangelical prelate of the ninth century.
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 THE VAUDOIS OF THE ALPS -- The Protesters
In keeping with the opening quotation, it may be as likely that Peter of Lyons was known as Vaudois or Waldo because of his views as that the church derived its name from him.
These teachers among the Vaudois were not full-time paid pastors: "some were artisans, the greater number surgeons or physicians; and all were versed in the cultivation of the soil and the nurture of flocks".
The Vaudois, handicapped by their unacceptable views on the nature of man, God, the church and the future, saw only in the instruction of their families any opportunity for perpetuation.
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 HistoryTestimoniesSaintsAndApost
The Vaudois' were seized, Imprisoned, Tortured, Burned; but they kept their faith pure to the last and Died calling on the name of the Master in whose cause they suffered.
Soon after this persecution, one of the Vaudois brethren of the Valley of Lucerna, in Piedmont, Chabert by name, purchased from the Dauphin John II, a good HOUSE in the principal village of the Valley, and presented it to the people of that place, to be used by them as a church.
Towards the end of the 14th century, the Vaudois were joined by some of their brethren from the French Valleys, and even as late as the year 1500 they received additions from the Valleys of Piedmont.
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 History - The Vaudois (Waldenses) and Their Valleys
The weapons of the Vaudois were rude, but their trust in God, and their indignation at the cowardly and bloody assault, gave them strength and courage.
He had been told, he said, that "the Vaudois children were monsters, with only one eye placed in the middle of the forehead, four rows of fl teeth, and other similar deformities." [xxxi] He expressed himself as not a little angry at having been made to believe such fables.
The more the Vaudois put themselves in the right, the more they put the Church of Rome in the wrong; and they who have already doomed them to perish are but the more resolutely determined to carry out their purpose.
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Traditionally these Vaudois or people of the Valleys belong to a church which is held to be the direct result of the teachings of the Apostles of early Christianity, never having belonged to the Roman Catholic religion.
The Vaudois, on their part, beheld with horror the gradual departure of the Roman Church from its primitive purity and simplicity.
Several of the Barbas (pastors) were seized, condemned and burned at the stake, and the people were over and over again forced to abandon their pleasant homes and take refuge in the mountains, in order to escape the cruelty of the priests and the soldiers whom they brought with them.
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 BELLA SION - Biographies: The Beux Family
The Vaudois (Waldensians) were exiled by the Catholic inquisitions and crusades except for a few that were forced to conform to Catholicism or face imprisonment, servitude as galley slaves or death.
The tables were later turned as the Vaudois who had escaped planned a deadly avalanche of boulders to be rolled down the mountainside at the gorge when the Catholic troops were to move into their village.
The Vaudois people were not a hateful people, later in 1706, they took in a refuge.
www.bellasion.org /texts/Beuxs.html   (1916 words)

  
 Is it true that 1 John 5:7 is not in any Greek manuscript before the 1600s? If it is true, why is it in the King James ...
The fact is, according to John Calvin's successor Theodore Beza, that the Vaudois received the Scriptures from missionaries of Antioch of Syria in the 120s AD and finished translating it into their Latin language by 157 AD.
This Bible was passed down from generation, until the Reformation of the 1500s, when the Protestants translated the Vaudois Bible into French, Italian, etc. This Bible carries heavy weight when finding out what God really said.
John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards believed, as most of the Reformers, that the Vaudois were the descendants of the true Christians, and that they preserved the Christian faith for the Bible-believing Christians today.
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 The History of Protestantism - Volume Second - Book Sixteenth - Protestantism in the Waldensian Valleys
The few inhabitants who had remained, as well as those who had returned, thinking that during the negotiations for peace hostilities would be suspended, were fain to make their escape a second time, and to seek refuge in the woods and caves of the higher reaches of the Valleys.
The trooper was raising his sword to strike him dead, when the Vaudois, clasping him tightly round the legs, and swaying himself backward with all his might, rolled over the precipice, dragging the soldier with him into the abyss.
His design appeared to be to leave the Vaudois only the alternative of submission, or of dying of hunger on their mountains.
www.doctrine.org /history/HPv2b16.htm   (17856 words)

  
 Chapter 9
The Vaudois, known as such by the world, but holding to the true Bible name, were persecuted for the true faith.
They profess to constitute the remains of the pure and primitive Christian church, and those who would question their claims cannot show either by history or tradition that they were subscribed to the popish rituals, or bowed down before any of the idols of the Roman church.
It should be noted also that no history can show these saints of God to ever have been within the fold of the Catholic Church, but had remained separate, letting their light shine, through the darkest hours of the Dark Ages.
www.giveshare.org /churchhistory/DuggerDodd/Dugger09.html   (566 words)

  
 Are the Hebrew and Greek behind the New King James the same as that for the King James Bible?
The Vaudois people were regarded by the Protestants and Baptists as "pre-Reformers," passing down the gospel message till the Reformation of the 1500s.
Please remember: the Old Latin Vulgate of the Vaudois is not the same as the later Roman Catholic Latin Vulgate.
The Vaudois Vulgate is the preserved words of God in Old Latin that was used to bring the gospel throughout Europe.
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 BookRags: Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others Summary
This poem was suggested by the account given of the manner which the Waldenses disseminated their principles among the Catholic gentry.
They would then give their purchasers a Bible or Testament; and thereby many were deluded into heresy.” The poem, under the title Le Colporteur Vaudois, was translated into French by Professor G. de Felice, of Montauban, and further naturalized by Professor Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet, who quoted it in his lectures on French literature, afterwards published.
Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others from Project Gutenberg.
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 Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others by Whittier - Project Gutenberg
Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others by Whittier - Project Gutenberg
Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others by Whittier
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 The Oxford American College Dictionary: Vaudois @ HighBeam Research
The Oxford American College Dictionary: Vaudois @ HighBeam Research
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