Persecution of the Believers Called Waldenses, in the Year 1319

In the year 1319, Pope John the Twenty-second again began to persecute the Waldenses in France, through his inquisitors, the Jacobine, or Dominican, monks. Having convicted many of them, as papistic writers say, of their belief (namely, that they were Waldenses), they delivered them to the princes and secular authorities for punishment. Bzov. Annal., in the year 1319, Article 10, from a manuscript in the Vatican library. Also, in the second book of the History of the Persecutions, folio 480, column 3.

As to the names of these people, and also the manner of their martyrdom, suffering and death, I have not been able to learn anything, except that, professing the belief of the Waldenses (as we have already stated), they were therefore subjected to persecution and suffering.

NOTE. In the year 1328. At this time Marsilius de Padua enjoyed distinction; he wrote against the pope, and also various things against the Roman church, but his work was condemned as heresy, and the reading of it strictly forbidden. Merul., folio 870, Georg. Pac., chapter 11, compared with P. J. Twisck, Chron., page 685, column 1.