Waldense

Origin

So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect around AD 1170.

Full definition of Waldense

Noun

1. (historical) A member of a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont.

Synonyms

• Vaudois
• Waldensian