12th Century Sabbath Observance
LOMBARDY
"Traces of Sabbath-keepers
are found in the times of Gregory I, Gregory VII, and in the twelfth
century in Lombardy." Strong's
Cyclopaedia, 1, 660
WALDENSES
"Robinson gives an account of some of the Waldenses of
the Alps, who were called Sabbati, Sabbatati, Insabbatati, but more
frequently Inzabbatati. "One says they were so named from the
Hebrew word Sabbath, because they kept the Saturday for the Lord's
day.'" General History of the
Baptist Denomination, Vol.II, P. 413
SPAIN (Alphonse of Aragon)
"Alphonse, king of Aragon, etc., to all archbishopss,
bishops and to all others...'We command y;ou that heretics, to wit,
Waldenses and Insabbathi, should be expelled away from the face of
God and from all Catholics and ordered to depart from our
kingdom.'" Marianse, Praefatio
in Lucam Tudensem, found in "Macima Gibliotheca Veterum Patrum,"
Vol.25, p.190
HUNGARY FRANCE, ENGLAND, ITALY, GERMANY.
(Referring to the Sabbath- keeping Pasagini) "The
spread of heresy at this time is almost incredible. From Gulgaria to
the Ebro, from nothern France to the Tiber, everywhere we meet them.
Whole countries are infested, like Hungary and southern France; they
abound in many other countries, in Germany, in Italy, in the
Netherlands and even in England they put forth their efforts." Dr.
Hahn, "Gesch. der Ketzer." 1, 13, 14
WALDENSES
"Among the documents. we have by the same peoples, an
explanation of the Ten Commandments dated by Boyer 1120. Observance
of the Sabbath by ceasing from worldly labours, is enjoined." Blair,
History of the Waldenses, Vol.1, p. 220
WALES
"There is much evidence that the Sabbath prevailed in
Wales university until A.D.1115, when the first Roman bishop was
seated at St. David's. The old Welslh Sabbath-keeping churches did
not even then altogether bow the knee to Rome, but fled to their
hiding places." Lewis,
"Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America," Vol.1, p.29
FRANCE
"For twenty years Peter de Bruys stirred southern
France. He especialy emphasised a day of worship that was recognized
at that time amaong the Celtic churches of the British Isles, among
the Paulicians, and in the great Church of the East namely, the the
seventh day of the fourth commandment."
PASAGINI
The papal author, Bonacursus, wrote the following against the
"Pasagaini": "Not a few, but many know what are the
errors of those who are called Pasaagini...First, they teach that we
should obey the Sabbath. Furthermore, to increase their error, they
condemn and reject all the church Fathers, and the whole Roman
Church." D'Achery, Spicilegium
I,f.211-214; Muratory, Antiq. med. aevi.5, f.152, Hahn, 3, 209
