Arnold, Marsilius, and Theodoric, in the Year 1163

"In the year of our Lord 1163," says the papistic writer Trithemius, "certain heretics of the sect called Cathari," (by which are meant the Waldenses, whose confession of faith we have shown above is not at variance with the Anabaptists of the present day), "came from Flanders to Cologne, and secretly stayed there in a certain barn near the city. But since they did not come to church, even on Sundays, they were detected by those living near them. Therefore, having been brought to an examination by our mother, the holy church (he means the Roman church), they were found to be confirmed heretics." Trith. Chron. Hirsaug. With this he closes. And so, in order to explain the matter more fully, we must necessarily turn to papistic writers, though they were the adversaries of these people.