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Sabbath. This concept arose from sources

which in the original Latin describe the

Waldenses as keeping the Dies Dominicalis,

or Lord's day (Sunday), but in which through

a practice which dates from the reformation,

the word for “Sunday” has been translated

“Sabbath.”

But there is historical evidence of some

observance of the seventh-day Sabbath

among the Waldenses. A report of an

inquisition before whom were brought some

Waldenses of Moravia in the middle of the

fifteenth century declares that among the

Waldenses “not a few indeed celebrate the

Sabbath with the Jews.”—Johann Joseph

Ignaz von Dollinger, Beitrage zur

Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Reports

on the History of the Sects of the Middle

Ages), Munich, 1890, 2d pt., p. 661. There can