Word: waldensians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrapped in paper into my pocket. On my way home I discovered that the following words were scrawled on the paper: 'From a Catholic monk for a poor Protestant in Rome as a symbol of Christian solidarity.' I delivered the sum to the dean of a small Waldensian seminary in Rome ... He spoke to his students about this gift, and they, quite spontaneously, took up an offering among themselves from their modest means and sent the total to the abbot of a large cloister in Rome with the request that it go to someone in need...
Italian Protestant leaders received the decision with muted satisfaction. Dr. Giorgio Peyrot, professor of ecclesiastical law at the Waldensian Theological Seminary in Rome, pointed out that there would be trouble as long as the conflicting Fascist laws were on the books...
...company for God. It was to be a place in which there would be no more Italians or Americans or Germans, Lutherans or Calvinists or Episcopalians-only Christians. It started in the head or the heart of a young Florentine, Tullio Vinay. He was an Italian Protestant, a Waldensian pastor...
Labor & Prayer. Vinay chose a site in the Piedmontese foothills, where his Waldensian ancestors had held out for centuries against papal persecutions.* There, in 1946, he and seven friends started to build a "community of love." They called it "Agape" (pronounced a-ga-pay)-the Greek word for brotherly love, which is translated in the English versions of the New Testament as "charity...
...Agape, as it is at the 13-year-old community at lona, off the Scottish coast (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947). This is the time in history, thinks Vinay, when cooperative manual work is the essential Christian activity, just as theology or faith was central in earlier centuries. Says Waldensian Carlo Lupo: "With all the respect we have for ecumenical councils and for doctors of theology, we must recognize that theological discussion belongs to a past state in church development. Today's religious revolution is a social transformation, not the social transformation of the Marxists, who continue to see work...