People of the valley took to the mountains of northern Italy so they could continue to worship God the way they knew they must! But more than just worship, they trained and sent out missionaries on dangerous sorties back to the valleys below in order to spread the Good News.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after. Adoniram Judson
The fight between the medieval church of Rome and the Christians in Southern France was at boiling point. French blood would flow in Rome's attempt to slow the drift from the church's authority.
The Magna Carta had both religious and civil importance to not just England, but to the whole world; "No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against hi...