Severe Persecution in Flanders, Artois, and Hainault, in the Year 1373

In the midst of these persecutions, which in the years 1372 and 1373 were carried on against the Waldenses, who were called Turilupins because in Flanders, Artois, and Hainault they had to live in forests inhabited by wolves (as we have already stated), it happened that among a great number of these people, who were burned as heretics together with their writings, books, and clothes, there was also a certain woman called Peronne of Aubeton, who had accepted that doctrine and faith and refused to depart from it. She was condemned as a heretic to be publicly burned, which, as is stated, took place with her at Paris in the year 1373; and so, continuing steadfast, she testified that the "Trial of her faith was more precious than of gold that perishes, though it is tried with fire." (First Peter 1, verse 7).

NOTE. Concerning the offering of this woman, and also the accusations cast by the papists against the Waldenses, called Turilupins, and how A. Mellinus, preacher of the Calvinists, replies on their behalf, saying that these poor people were lamentably slandered, and that they were upright Waldenses; also, that the papists charged them with whatever they pleased. See the large Book of Christian Martyrs, second part, folio 497.