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Advent
In the Christian calendar, the first season of the church year, a period of preparation for the birth of Jesus. Advent begins on the Sunday nearest to November 30 and continues until Christmas. Viewed as a penitential season, it is also considered a time of preparation for the Second Coming of Christ. The origin of Advent is unknown, but it was observed as early as the 6th cent. In many countries it is celebrated with popular customs such as the lighting of Advent candles.
Waldenses
Members of a Christian movement that originated in 12th-cent. France. Devotees sought to follow the example of Jesus by living in poverty and simplicity. The movement's reputed founder, P. Waldo, was eventually condemned by the archbishop of Lyon for his use of a non-Latin Bible and other unorthodox activities. After being placed under ban by Pope Lucius III (1184), Waldo and his followers departed from Roman Catholicism by rejecting such concepts as purgatory and the veneration of the saints. Rome responded with active persecution and execution of Waldenses, and their numbers diminished by the end of the 15th cent. In the 16th cent. they adopted the church organization of Genevan Protestantism. Intermittently persecuted, they have remained a small movement within Christianity, surviving today in Argentina, Uruguay, and the U.S.
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