Waldensian movement's forerunners
1155
Around this period in the Alpine valleys south of Lyon, lay preachers began to appear who insisted that the Gospel should be preached in the vernacular by anyone - man or woman, cleric or layperson - who knew it. The movement would coalesce into the Waldensians under Peter Waldo's leadership.
In context
Also in 1155 (4 other events on record)
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.