The pilgrims set sail from England and arrived in America. It would become a safe haven that upheld three of their most longed for freedoms: freedom from fear, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
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It became one of the darkest events in the history of the Reformation, the persecution of the Waldensians. They would later write, “Our tears are no longer of water; they are of blood. They do not merely obscure our sight, they choke our very hearts”.
The French word for resistance is crudely etched into the rim of a refuse hole in the Tower of Constance. Tradition has it that the word was inscribed by Marie Durand, a young Huguenot imprisoned in the Tower for her faith for almost 40 years!