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In the thirteenth century the Pope instituted a crusade against them, the details of which belong to general history. The principles of the Vaudois, however, remained unsubdued, and at the Reformation their descendants were reckoned among the Protestants, though they differed, and continue to differ, from them in many doctrinal points, and they remain as a distinct sect in many parts of Europe. But it was only in 1848 that by the edict of the king of Sardinia they were granted religious liberty... and equal civil and poli- tical rights with the Roman Catholic population of that kingdom. According to Rulman Merswin, who wrote be- tween 1370-80 at Strasbourg, a community of Vaudois then lived hidden in the mountains of Switzerland, calling them- selves by the name of ** Friends of God.'* The Anabaptists, Lollards, Beghards, and Beguines all sprang from this sect. 179. Zuciferians. — Another sect which sprung from the Cathari was that of the Luciferians, which must not be confounded with that so named after Lucifer, Bishop of Cagliari, and which existed for a short time under Theodo- sius the Great.
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