Waldensian pastor of Meana
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Nîmes, Kingdom of France
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Waldensian pastor
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- Before 3 April 1560
- End date
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Turin
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Paride Provana, captain of Justice; Corbis, member of the Senate of Piedmont
- Notes
Start date: arrest
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Local judge
- [Tommaso Giacomelli]
- Sentence date
- Before 3 April 1560
- Sentence place
- Crime category
- List of crimes
Obstinacy in the Reformed faith (Waldensianism)
- Reason for conviction
- Anti-Waldensian edict of the Duke of Savoy (15 February 1560)
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- Between 3 and 4 April 1560
- Authority
- Duke of Savoy
- Execution place
- Execution type
- Burned alive
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Unknown
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
Antonio Possevino to Giacomo Laínez, Fossano, 28 April 1560 (edited in Scaduto, Le missioni di A. Possevino, p. 114)
Scipione Lentolo to Théodore de Bèze, March 1561 (edited in Histoire memorable, pp. 152-153 and Tedeschi, An Addition, p. 445)
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Gilles Pierre, Histoire ecclésiastique des Eglises Réformées, recueillies en quelques Valées de Piedmont, et circonuoisines, autrefois appelées Eglises Vaudoises, commençant des l’an 1160 de nostre Seigneur, et finissant en l’an mil sex cent quarante trois, Genève, Iean de Tournes, 1644, p. 75
Histoire memorable de la guerre faite par le duc de Savoye contre ses subjectz des vallees, ed. Enea Balmas, Vittorio Diena, Torino, Claudiana, 1972, pp. 84-85
Léger Jean, Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises, vol. 2, Leyde, Jean le Carpentier, 1669, pp. 34-35
Lentolo Scipione, Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte ai tempi nostri in Provenza, Calabria e Piemonte contra il popolo, che chiamano valdese, ed. Teofilo Gay, Torre Pellice, Tipografia Alpina, 1906, p. 120
Storia delle persecuzioni e guerre contro il popolo chiamato valdese che abita nelle Valli del Piemonte, di Angrogna, Luserna, S. Martino, Perosa e altre, a far tempo dall’anno 1555 fino al 1561, ed. Enea Balmas, Carlo Alberto Theiler, Torino, Claudiana, 1975, p. 98
Rorengo Marco Aurelio, Memorie historiche dell’introduttione dell’heresie nelle valli di Lucerna, Marchesato di Saluzzo, e altre di Piemonte, Torino, Tarino, 1649, p. 40
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other