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Title: Christian heroes and martyrs
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: (Foster, William A.) (from old catalog)
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nant followed them, however, with thetroops, and taking many prisoners, they dashed them headlong fromthe precipices. A good many escaped for a time from the hands ofthe soldiers, and hid in the darkest recesses of rocky caves, for asthey knew the secret passage-ways they were able to conceal them-selves. The archdeacon and lieutenant being, therefore, unable toseize them, they ordered firewood heaped up at the mouths of thecaves. When all was ready the piles were lighted, and the peopleinside were all smothered to death by the smoke and heat. Uponsearching the caves after the fires had gone out, more than iooodead bodies were found, many being those of women and children.Altogether 3000 persons were slain during this attack. After this cruel work, the lieutenant and archdeacon went withthe troops to other places in order to attack the Waldenses. Butthese having heard of the fate of their brethren in the valley, armedthemselves; and by fortifying the different passes, and bravely dis-
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WALDENSES TAKE REFUGE IN A CAVE AND ARE SMOTHERED TO DEATH 184 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. puting the advance of the soldiers, they inflicted such injuries uponthem that the lieutenant was compelled to go back without accom-plishing anything. Waldenses Protected by the King of France. Two soldiers of fortune, named Anthony Fabri and Christopher deSalience, having obtained permission from the pope to plunder theWaldenses, attacked them with a large number of soldiers. Theyput many of the poor people to death, robbed others of all they pos-sessed, and left hundreds starving and destitute. The king of France had not consented to this, and to him the Wal-denses appealed for justice. In spite of his respect for the pope, theking could not permit his loyal subjects to be slaughtered withoutany apparent cause. He soon made inquiries, and after hearing thetestimony of many witnesses, was satisfied that the people who hadbeen so cruelly persecuted were innocent of any crime. Indeed, theoffic

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