The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont/Chapter 4
CHAPTER IV.
The Colonising Church
The origin, progress and destruction of the Vaudois colonies of Apulia and Calabria—Biography of Jean Louis Pascale.
WHAT a history is that of man! Well might
the Christian poet exclaim—
My soul is sick of every day’s report
Of war and outrage, with which earth is filled.
There is no flesh in man’s obdurate heart!
It does not feel for man.
The book of history is stained from beginning to end with crime; but no page has a deeper dye than that marked with the crusade against the Albigenses. We have said that there had for successive ages been a cry throughout the hierarchy against the wide-spreading evangelisation of these people; and that numerous victims were sacrificed to its bigotry and superstition. Persecution began in the thirteenth century to assume a more organised form. “Superstition Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/75 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/76 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/77 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/78 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/79 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/80 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/81 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/82 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/83 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/84 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/85 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/86 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/87 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/88 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/89 Page:The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont.djvu/90