Relative Strangers: Italian Protestants in the Catholic World

Relative Strangers: Italian Protestants in the Catholic World by Cicero Jr., Frank. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780897336154.

Italian Protestants? Few people seem to have heard of them, but the authors mothers immigrant Italian family was Protestant while his fathers were Catholic immigrants from Sicily. Relative Strangers describes the authors search for the religious roots of his parents families in northern Italy and Sicily. He traces the history of the Waldensians, the Protestant sect which began in Lyon, France in the 12th century, often suffering persecution, but surviving to this day both in Europe and America.