years, where is the evidence for such a group’s existence? The Waldensians,8 who are claimed as ancestors by every sect from the Pentecostals to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, did not exist prior to the twelfth century. It is, to say the least, a bit of a stretch to believe that these true-believers suffered courageously under the fierce persecutions of the Romans, and yet would have headed for the hills as soon as Christianity became a legal religion. Yet even this seems possible when compared with the