Light in the Cottian Alps

In 1655, the Duke of Savoy ordered the extermination of the Waldensians, a small community of believers who had clung to the gospel in the alpine valleys of Piedmont for nearly five centuries. Soldiers swept through the Cottian Alps in what became known as the Piedmont Easter, burning villages, slaughtering families, driving survivors higher into the frozen mountains. But the Waldensians did not perish.…