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Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (St. Louis, Missouri: B.
Herder, 1941).
For a discussion of the mass see The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol
5, art. “Eucharist,” by Joseph Pohle, page 572ff.; Nikolaus Gihr,
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Dogmatically, Liturgically, Ascetically
Explained, 12th ed. (St. Louis, Missouri: B. Herder, 1937); Josef
Andreas Jungmann, The Mass of the Roman Rite, its Origins and
Development, translated from the German by Francis A. Brunner
(New York: Benziger Bros., 1951). For the non-Catholic view, see
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, B. 4, chs. 17, 18; and
Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Doctrine of the Real Presence (Oxford,
England: John H. Parker, 1855).
Page 65. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses.—There are writers
who have maintained that the Waldenses made a general practice of
observing the seventh-day Sabbath. This concept arose from sources
which in the original Latin describe the Waldenses as keeping the Dies
Dominicalis, or Lord’s day (Sunday), but in which through a practice
which dates from the reformation, the word for “Sunday” has been
translated “Sabbath.”
But there is historical evidence of some observance of the seventh-
day Sabbath among the Waldenses. A report of an inquisition before
whom were brought some Waldenses of Moravia in the middle of
the fifteenth century declares that among the Waldenses “not a few
indeed celebrate the Sabbath with the Jews.”—Johann Joseph Ignaz
[685]
von Dollinger, Beitrage zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Reports
on the History of the Sects of the Middle Ages), Munich, 1890, 2d
pt., p. 661. There can be no question that this source indicates the
observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.
Page 65. Waldensian Versions of the Bible.—On recent discov-
eries of Waldensian manuscripts see M. Esposito, “Sur quelques
manuscrits de l’ancienne litterature des Vaudois du Piemont,” In Revue
D’ Historique Ecclesiastique (Louvain, 1951), p. 130ff.; F. Jostes,
“Die Waldenserbibeln,” In Historisches Jahrbuch, 1894; D. Lortsch,
Histoire de la Bible en France (Paris, 1910), ch. 10.
A classic written by one of the Waldensian “barbs” is Jean Leger,
Histoire Generale des Eglises Evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont
(Leyden, 1669), which was written at the time of the great persecutions
and contains firsthand information with drawings.