Return to the Promised Land

Chased across the Alps and nearly annihilated, the Waldensians are a people whose story is dramatic and well worth telling.

As early as the 12th century, this proto-Protestant community of believers practised a purer form of Christianity than that of wider Roman Catholic Europe. They had established faith communities in the foothills of north-western Italy, far removed from the reach of papal Rome. Or so they thought.