Rome (NEV), July 19, 2020 – A cult of commemoration presided over by the Waldensian pastor Emanuele Fiume has been held in Rome on Sunday 19 July, exactly 400 years after the massacre known as the “Valtellina Sacred slaughter”. “We will remember this episode of our history during the cult – wrote Pastor Fiume on the front page of the July-August bulletin “Protestants in Rome”, sent to members and sympathizers of the Waldensian community that meets in via IV Novembre 107, in Rome.
The NEV press agency has published a fact sheet entitled “The Valtellina sacred slaughter. 19 July 1620”, edited by Emanuele Fiume, in which the pastor and scholar retraces the historical stages of the religious extermination of hundreds of Protestants occurred 400 hundred years ago.