(See "Ancient Churches of Piedmont," by P. Allix, pp. They were Sabbath keepers who were persecuted because of their faith. . Sabbath keeping among the Waldenses was most widespread in Bohemia and Moravia. What could this gathering have been but the Feast of Tabernacles! The issue of the Bulgarians Sabbath-keeping was raised and is seen in a reply of Pope Nicolas I to the Bulgarian king. David Benedict says they were called Sabbatarians for keeping the seventh day. 152-260.) The Waldensians never followed the Seventh-day Adventist’s Sabbath but they followed more Paul in Romans 14,5-8. They refused to… Sabbath-keeping is a matter about which each Christian needs to be fully convinced in his/her own mind. They were hunted down mercilessly by the Catholic Church. They dwelt in the Piedmont Valley, which is in the Swiss Alps on the border of Italy and France. One of the earliest known names of these believers was insabbati, demonstrating that they were Sabbath-keepers, being named after the day on which they worshiped. History of the Waldenses By JA Wylie This important history book details the history of the Waldensian people (also called the Vaudois). The Waldensian Faith. (Ibid.) . An inquisitor’s manuscript from the fifteenth century reported that Waldenses in Bohemia “do not celebrate the feasts of the blessed virgin Mary and the Apostles, except the Lord’s day. The Arnoldists, the Albigenses, the Cathers, the Waldensians, and the Lollards all had in their companies sincere Sabbath keepers as well as individuals who syncretized elements of Catholicism (as well as Protestantism later) with the doctrines of God's true Church. In the early chapters of the book of Acts, the first Christians were predominantly Jews. Alphonse, king of Aragon, etc., … As a result the pretentious claims of the Waldenses to high antiquity were relegated to the realm of fable. . Sabbath-keeping is an issue on which God’s Word instructs us not to judge each other. In Spain the persecution is specifically directed at the Waldensian Sabbath-keepers. Despite intense … In the Waldensians, Sabbatati or Insabbatati, there was a more or less continuous tradition of Sabbath-keeping from the early church of the Apostles, throughout southern Europe. In fact, it was because of the inability to stamp out the Subordinationist Sabbatati, that the crusades of the thirteenth century were implemented. The real founder of the sect was a wealthy merchant of Lyons who in the early documents is called Waldes (Waldo). This stirring 3-part, 85 minute DVD, documents the History of these people. The Waldenses were a group of Sabbath keepers who dwelt in the Swiss Alps for a period of just over 1,000 years. In the nineteenth century, however, it became evident to critics that the Waldensian documents had been tampered with. We can therefore say very clearly that the Waldensians were not Seventh-day Sabbath keepers and they were not persecuted for keeping Saturday as the Sabbath! (ACBCC p.11) The Waldenses took the Bible as their only rule of faith, abhorred the idolatry of the papal church, and rejected their traditions, holidays, and even Sunday, but kept the seventh-day Sabbath, and used the apostolic mode of baptism. Allix, in his Ancient Churches of Piedmont, says, it was a doctrine of the Waldenses that the Sabbath of the Law of Moses was to be observed. 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