The American Waldensian Society assists churches, organizations and families in the promotion of Waldensian history and culture. [30], The Waldensians would later in their history adopt a number of doctrines from the Reformed churches due to the French Reformer Guaillaume Farel, who introduced Reformation theology to Waldensian leaders. In these matters the denominational connection factor was emerging as key to AWS self-understanding - the crossings business effectively serving to enlarge and fortify Waldensian and US denominational partnership and solidarity, with AWS as friendly broker. [112] A most fruitful cooperation was established at the community level, with Waldensian delegates from both sides pioneering. 33 During Fascism (1922-1945), the . The church has also attracted intellectuals as new adherents and supporters and enjoys significant financial support from non-adherent Italians. A Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 1100s and adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 1500s. In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the 1598 Edict of Nantes, which had guaranteed freedom of religion to his Protestant subjects in France. [112] Based on these experiences, the first town-twinning partnership between Germany and France was signed 1950 between Ludwigsburg and the Protestant exclave Montbliard, again based on a special connection of the Wrttemberg Landeskirche. The Waldensian Ghetto. [112] He was unable to come for reasons of health but sent A. Jalla, a teacher, described as being full of spite and hatred against all things German after 1945, but who joined in the effort for reconciliation 1949. By 1915, there were 300 Italian Protestant churches and missions and four newspapers (Mangano 1917: 175). 32. Box 37844 . They were nearly annihilated in the 17th century. When Napoleon fell in 1815, the duke returned and so did the repressive rules. Under the guise of false reports of Vaudois uprisings, the Duke sent troops into the upper valleys to quell the local populace. new world. There, they ended up joining the local Protestant churches. . 31-42 ). The Waldensian community is active and has various associations maintaining the specific heritage and keep relationships with their counterparts in Italy and South America. Waldensian Presbyterian Church perserves its ties with the original Waldensian church of Italy: Chiesa Evangelica Valdese (Waldensian Evangelical Church) and its subsequent settlement in Uruguay and Argentina, South America: Iglesia Evangelica Valdense (Waldensian . Join WPC for Online Services Click Here for WPC YOUTUBE Services 8:30am Worship - Sundays [citation needed] Writers like Italo Calvino and politicians like Domenico Maselli and Valdo Spini are of Waldensian background. The Synod elects the two moderators of the Waldensian boardsthe Tavola Valdese in Italy and the Mesa Valdense in Argentina-Uruguay. The society is friend to those who . The eight per thousand tax (Italian: otto per mille) introduced 1985 in Italy greatly helped the Waldensian community. "La 'Confesion de f' de los Valdenses llamada del ano 1120" (August 1935). In furtherance of marking the Waldensians 800 years AWS sponsored and published, in 1980, the English translation (The Waldensians, 240 pp.) The society allies with those who work to . "Old Waldensian: Some linguistic and editorial observations". Originally known as the "Poor Men of Lyon" in the late twelfth century,[1][2][3] the movement spread to the Cottian Alps in what are today France and Italy. [4] Many did not, and were subjected to intense persecution and were confronted with organised and general discrimination in the following centuries. We seek to generate funding that assists their ministry. Valdese, NC 28690. The American Waldensian Society assists churches, organizations and families in the promotion of Waldensian history and culture. The Waldensian Church is the native Protestant Church of Italy whose origins pre-date the Reformation. this contingent left South America in early 1875, fleeing civil war in the Uruguayan countryside, traveling first back to Europe then across the Northern Atlantic to New York and by train to . Date Built: 1908. Another 8,000 had been imprisoned, more than half of whom died of deliberately imposed starvation, or of sickness within six months. The Waldensian Church is the oldest evangelical church in existence dating back to the 12 th century, about 400 years before the Reformation. Waldensian scholarship also flourished in the nineteenth century. At that time, the Catholic Church was the main religious power in Europe). But in 1655 the Waldensian . With the outbreak of the Uruguayan Civil War they had fled violence in the Uruguayan countryside, traveling first back to Europe then across the Northern Atlantic to New York and by train to southern Missouri. As Waldensian churches in Italy became more self-supporting, the focus of the Aid Society shifted towards Protestant churches. [23] The poem exists in four manuscripts: two are housed at the University of Cambridge, one at Trinity College in Dublin, and another in Geneva. (Click on the region to jump to that area on this page; click on the name of the regional organization to go to another website.) "La 'Confesion de f' de los Valdenses llamada del ano 1120" (August 1935). In October 2013, the Waldensian Church in Italy (Chiesa Valdese), through its participation in Italy's Otto per Mille program, awarded Princeton Theological Seminary a grant to expand the collection of books and periodicals in the Theological Commons. On 18 April he made a stirring appeal before an assembly at Roccapiatta, winning over the majority in favor of armed resistance. It was written that these targets of persecution, including old men, women, little children and the sick "waded through the icy waters, climbed the frozen peaks, and at length reached the homes of their impoverished brethren of the upper Valleys, where they were warmly received."[65]. The leaders in the 1545 massacres were Jean Maynier d'Oppde, First President of the parliament of Provence, and the military commander Antoine Escalin des Aimars, who was returning from the Italian Wars with 2,000 veterans, the Bandes de Pimont. The Waldensian Presbyterian Church (1896-99) in Valdese, North Carolina, is an integral The Waldensian church was able to gain converts by building schools in some of the poorer regions of Italy, including Sicily. American Waldensian Society, 208 Rodoret Street S, Valdese, NC (2023) [83], Some historical writers suggest Waldensian beliefs came from missionaries from the early church and that their history may have its origins in the apostolic age,[84] though this idea itself stems from Baptist Successionism, an idea that was very popular among some 19thcentury Church historians but has been largely rejected by modern scholars in the field. The first Waldensian settlers from Italy arrived in South America in 1856 and today the Waldensian Church of the Ro de La Plata (which forms a united church with the Waldensian Evangelical Church) has approximately 40 congregations and 15,000 members shared between Uruguay and Argentina. Preservation of the Bible by the Waldenses (From Our Authorized Bible Vindicated, 1930, pp. Monastier also says that Eberard de Bthune, writing in 1210 (although Monastier says 1160), claimed that the name Vaudois meant "valley dwellers" or those who "dwell in a vale of sorrow and tears", and was in use before the times of Peter Waldo. The work of the American Waldensian Society continues in the United States today. by Benjamin G. Wilkinson, Ph. In 1532, they met with German and Swiss Protestants and ultimately adapted their beliefs to those of the Reformed Church. [132], The American Waldensian Society assists churches, organizations and families in the promotion of Waldensian history and culture. [54], The Catholic Church viewed the Waldensians as unorthodox, and in 1184 at the Synod of Verona, under the auspices of Pope Lucius III, they were excommunicated. They put up a brave fight over the next six weeks, but by the time the Duke retired to Turin on 8 June, the war seemed decided: 2,000 Waldensians had been killed; another 2,000 had "accepted" the Catholic theology of the Council of Trent. Waldensian companies dominated Turin's chocolate industry for the latter half of the nineteenth century and are generally credited with the invention of gianduja (hazelnut chocolate).[73]. Deaths in the Massacre of Mrindol ranged from hundreds to thousands, depending on the estimates, and several villages were devastated.[64]. The Waldensian Church is rooted in the preaching of Valdesius, a merchant in Lyon, France, who lived during the same period of the late Middle Ages as Francis of Assisi. Some early Protestants felt a spiritual kinship to the Waldensians and wrote positively about them. The Constitution of the Italian Republic granted the Waldensian Church freedom of worship in 1948, but these rights were not signed into law until 1984. "Waldensian and Catholic Theologies of History in the XIIXIV Centuries: Part I". [56][57] In 1211 more than 80 Waldensians were burned as heretics at Strasbourg; this action launched several centuries of persecution that nearly destroyed the movement. About the earlier history of the Waldenses considerable uncertainty exists because of a lack of extant source material. In 2015, the Waldensian Evangelical Church sponsored the Milan Gay Pride "so that the human and civil rights of homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender people are recognized." By the 1920s most of the Waldensian churches and missions merged into the Presbyterian Church due to the cultural assimilation of the second and third generations. Although the Waldensian church was granted some rights and freedoms under French King HenryIV, with the Edict of Nantes in 1598, persecution rose again in the 17thcentury, with an extermination of the Waldensians attempted by the Duke of Savoy in 1655. Editor's note: For more than a decade, the Rev. That being said, ever since the XII century in the boot there's a little Protestant community, called Waldensian Evangelical Church, which makes a lot of noise in both Italian and European public debate. It admits only two ceremonies, baptism and the Lord's Supper. . . A.D. 1049-1294 - Christian Classics Ethereal Library", "Waldenses | Description, History, & Beliefs | Britannica", "Decoding Ancient Waldenses Names: New Discoveries", "Piedmontese Children Forced from their parents", "Francis asks forgiveness for Waldensian persecutions, killings", "Were the Waldenses Baptists or Pedo-Baptists? The Waldensians in turn excommunicated Pope Benedict XI.[59]. Stuttgart hosts as well an Italian Waldensian community with about 100 members. In August 1689, in the midst of the wars between the League of Augsburg and France, Arnaud led 1,000 Swiss exiles, armed with modern weaponry provided by the Dutch, back to the Piedmont. They are reported to have unleashed an unprovoked campaign of looting, rape, torture, and murder. [20], La nobla leyczon ("The noble lesson"), written in the Occitan language, gives a sample of the medieval Waldensian belief. The following 11 files are in this category, out of 11 total. Museo Storico Valdese Via Beckwith, 3. [114] German Protestants have been supportive of the Waldensians in Italy since the 17th century. [34][35] While the Inquisitor Reinerius Saccho in the 12th century also spoke about the dangers of the Waldenses for among other reasons its antiquity "some say that it has lasted from the time of Sylvester, others, from the time of the Apostles. In the beginning the Waldensians were simply a group of traveling lay preachers within the Roman Catholic Church, but as time went on and they faced mounting . In 1211 more than 80 were burned as heretics at Strasbourg, beginning several centuries of persecution that nearly destroyed the sect. Between 1175 and 1185, Waldo either commissioned a cleric from Lyon to translate the New Testament into the vernacularthe Arpitan (Franco-Provenal) language[38]or was himself involved in this translation work. As the Catholic Church indulged in excesses in the time of Constantine (Roman Emperor from 306 to 337) the account tells the Waldenses held true to their apostolic faith of poverty and piety. The League of Augsburg was formed in 1686 under Orange, who promised support to Arnaud. This movement was called "The Poor of Lyons" in France and "Poor . From that date there have been several migrations, especially to Argentina, such as the town of Jacinto Aruz in the southern part of the province of LaPampa, where they arrived around 1901. After the Synod of Chanforan in Angrogne (1532) and later on, the Waldensians become a Reformed Presbyterian Church, as in Geneva. The Waldensian Presbyterian churches in the United States and the American Waldensian Society have links with the Italian-based Waldensian Evangelical Church, but, unlike the South American Waldensian communities, today they are independent institutions from the European organization. Once it was believed that this poem dated between 1190 and 1240,[21][22] but there is evidence that it was written in the first part of the fifteenth century. Some had their hands and arms and legs lopped off, and fire applied to the severed parts to staunch the bleeding and prolong their suffering. Protestant theology in Germany was interested in the doctrinal antiquity and apostolic continuity being expressed by the Waldensian faith. of Giorgio Tourns I Valdesi (1974); written through the prism of modern historico-critical scholarship, the Tourn work was the first restatement of the Waldensian experience in half a century. You have successfully removed Waldensian Presbyterian Church Cemetery from your Photo Volunteer cemetery list. Dr. Kevin E. Frederick has been a leading figure in the Waldensian movement in the United States.On March 30, 2021, he will be retiring as pastor of the Waldensian Presbyterian Church in Valdese, North Carolina. Footnote 94 Educated at Tbingen, Halle, and Berlin, he arrived in the United States at the age of twenty-five, having received a call to teach at the German Reformed seminary in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. [112] The GAW has ongoing links with the Waldensians in Italy. The church now known as Waldensian Presbyterian Church continues as an active Presbyterian Church. [58] Waldensians briefly ruled Buda, the capital of Hungary from 1304 to 1307. The 232 member churches of the WCRC are grouped into geographic regions, with several of these having regional councils. [89][90][91][92][93][94][95][self-published source?] A book that,even today, deserves special attention. The most well known Waldensian Churches in America were in New York, Monett, Missouri and in Valdese, North Carolina. But about two or three hundred Vaudois fled to the hills and began carrying out a guerilla war over the next year against the Catholic settlers who arrived to take over the Vaudois lands. In 1895 the Waldensian Church in Valdese united with the Presbyterian Church, which shared similar structure and theology. The Waldenses were those Christians who lived in the Vaudois valley in northern Italy. . They successfully re-established their presence in the Piedmont and drove out the Catholic settlers, but they continued to be besieged by French and Piedmontese troops. Some believe they formed in the Middle Ages, following a street merchant and preacher named Peter Waldo around the year 1170. Municipality names like Pinache, Serres (both now part of Wiernsheim), Grovillars (part of Oberderdingen), Kleinvillars, Perouse show the French heritage, the latter communities are close to Maulbronn and its UNESCO world heritage site monastery and school. Newsletter for and about the American Waldensian Society, the Waldensian Church in America, and other Waldensian synods world-wide. 2202 - Waldensian - Dr Gay in pulpit of church.jpg 2,711 2,476; 1.36 MB. [6][7][8] Another large congregation is the Evangelical Waldensian Church of Ro de la Plata in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. When the news of the Reformation reached the Waldensian Valleys, the Tavola Valdese decided to seek fellowship with the nascent Protestantism. In the 17th to the 19th centuries, Dutch and German Mennonite writers like van Braght, Martyrs Mirror (1660)[86] and Steven Blaupot ten Cate, Geschiedkundig onderzoek (1844),[87][88] linked Anabaptist origins to the Waldensians. Waldensian Church This six part newspaper story regarding the history of the Waldensian Church appeared in the Jan. 19-26, 1957, issues of the Monett Times to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the church building. An estimate of some 1,700 Waldensians were slaughtered; the massacre was so brutal it aroused indignation throughout Europe. It recognizes as its doctrinal standard the confession of faith published in 1655 and based on the Reformed confession of 1559. On 24April 1655, at 4a.m., the signal was given for a general massacre. According to some early baptist sources there are also accounts of Paulicians, Petrobusians, and Pasaginians, along with the Waldenses of the Alps, who kept Saturday as the Lord's day. Gretser, J. The Waldensian Church is a member of the World Council of Churches, World Alliance of Reformed Churches,and Conference of European Churches. But the majority. These claims were discounted in the nineteenth century. These included: They also rejected a number of concepts that were widely held in Christian Europe of the era. (1738). Alberto de' Capitanei, archdeacon of Cremona, responded to the bull by organizing a crusade to fulfill its order and launched a military offensive in the provinces of Dauphin and Piedmont. AMERICAN WALDENSIAN AID SOCIETY FOSTERS DIALOGUE AND PARTNERSHIP AMONG WALDENSIAN CHURCHES IN ITALY AND SOUTH AMERICA AND CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WITHIN NORTH AMERICA IN ORDER TO PROMOTE A COMPELLING VISION OF WALDENSIAN CHRISTIAN WITNESS FOR NORTH AMERICA. Pope Innocent III went even further during the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, officially denouncing the Waldensians as heretics. Dr. Valdir Frana Before joining the World Mission staff in 2014, Frana was supervisor for Mission in the Americas with the Reformed Church in America . [103], Some authors[104][105] try to date a Reformation-era Waldensian confession of faith back into the Middle Ages in 1120 to assert their claim of doctrinal antiquity. 109 Main Street E. Because they agree with us that heaven is a paradox, a metaphor. [66], This massacre became known as the Piedmont Easter. It was once held that the Waldenses were first taught by Paul the Apostle who visited Spain and then allegedly traveled on to Piedmont. (Wikipedia) By Giorgio Tourn , Riforma- The history of the Bible's translation by Olivetano and funded by the Waldensians in 1535. He gave up his wealth and preached poverty but as the movement grew it came into increasing theological conflict with the papacy. In 1487 Pope Innocent VIII issued a bull[60] Id Nostri Cordis for the extermination of the Vaudois. The following interview, courtesy of the American Waldensian Society, is one of several interviews with Frederick that will be . 22). Open Thursday, Saturday, Sunday - 15.00 / 18.00. [106] However, in the current historiography from the Waldensians themselves it is asserted that this confession was drafted in 1531.[107][108]. The Catholic Church declared them heretics, stating that the group's principal error was contempt for ecclesiastical power. [29][27], Saccho gave the following charges against the Waldensians:[25], The Waldensians were associated by councils and papal decrees with the Cathars; however they differed radically from them: the Waldensians never accepted Gnostic views, they did not reject the sacraments in total and did not believe in mysticism. But the Duke, granting that permission on 3January 1687, required that the Vaudois leave immediately or convert to Catholicism. Waldensian presence in Latin America was born out of the mid-nineteenth century emigration from Italy. [24], The Waldensians came into conflict with the Catholic church by denying some of its sacraments, both Waldensian and Catholic sources imply that the Waldensians rejected infant baptism, atleast to some extent. For example, over the course of 45years, the Old Colony Players in Valdese, North Carolina, have staged From this Day Forward, an outdoor drama telling the story of the Waldenses and the founding of Valdese.[126]. Website: www.chiesavaldese.org [96], Still later, Seventh-day Adventist Ellen G. White taught that the Waldenses were preservers of biblical truth during the Great Apostasy of the Catholic Church. [49] Johann Gottfried Hering in 1756 in his Compendieuses Church and Heretic Lexicon defined Sabbatati (a sect of the Waldenses) as those who kept the sabbath with the Jews. It is a member of the World Council of Churches.It describes itself as "the representative body that brings together African Independent and Instituted Churches (AICs), offers them a forum for sharing their concerns and hopes, and enables churches to minister effectively to the needs . Economic and social integration have eased acceptance of ethnic Waldensians into Italian society. In the launch decades AWS priorities abroad included earthquake relief (1908, Sicily), the building (1914) of the landmark Piazza Cavour Church in Rome, care of children orphaned by WWI, and, at home, across the major European immigration years, assisting in the settlement of Italian Protestant immigrants and formation of Italian language Protestant churches. "How do the Waldensian Christians teach that someone gets to heaven?" Waldensian lady's answer. The results of the meeting were inconclusive, and the Third Lateran Council in the same year condemned Waldo's ideas, but not the movement itself; the leaders of the movement had not yet been excommunicated. The Waldensian Church today embraces approximately 30,000 members in Italy and 15,000 in Argentina-Uruguay. This likely marks AWS first sustained effort to send Americans overseas not as tour people, but as co-workers for shoulder-to-shoulder ministry on the territory. In 1184, Waldo and his followers were excommunicated and forced from Lyon. But they left South America because of political unrest and settled in Monett in large part because the . The French Bible, translated by Pierre Robert Olivtan with the help of Calvin and published at Neuchtel in 1535, was based in part on a New Testament in the Waldensian vernacular. But the Vaudois remained resistant. Their descendants still consider themselves both Mormon and Waldensian, and have met occasionally over the many decades to celebrate both heritages.[127][128][129][130]. He attended North Liberty School where he was known as the Mayor always waving and. To show that the messengers of God who carried manuscripts from the churches of Judea to the churches of northern Italy and on, brought to the forerunners of the Waldenses a Bible different from the Bible of Roman . The Roman Inquisitor Reinerus Sacho, writing c.1230, held the sect of the Vaudois to be of great antiquity, thus preceding Waldo by centuries. Heinrich Gottlieb Kreussler's 1830 History of the Reformation contains a ballade about the fate of the Waldensians and quotes Jean Lger's[fr] History of the Waldenians (1750) (authored with Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten, published by Johann Jacob Korn) as proof of an early origin of the Waldensians. In addition to increasing its membership, the Church is dedicated to communicating the message, based on the Gospels, that believers are set free by Christ for personal and public responsibility. The Church often pursues this program by taking clear, progressive, even controversial stands on issues in public life related to the struggle for a state free of clerical and sectarian interests. [39] Supreme authority in the body is exercised by an annual synod, and the affairs of the individual congregations are administered by a consistory under the presidency of the pastor.[39]. "[36] In the 17th century, Waldensian Pastor Henri Arnaud stated that "the Vaudois are, in fact, descended from those refugees from Italy, who, after St Paul had there preached the gospel abandoned their beautiful country, like the woman mentioned in the apocalypse and fled to those wild mountains where they have to this day, handed down the gospel from father to son in the same purity and simplicity as it was preached by St Paul. Others claim that Waldensian Church history can be traced back to the Apostles. The Waldensian church is the largest Protestant denomination in a country that is overwhelmingly Catholic. Over time, the denomination joined the Genevan or Reformed branch of Protestantism. 22 were here. Part of their legacy is recognized as works of the writer Henri Arnaud. Today, this organization continues as the American Waldensian Society. The Waldensians (also called the Waldenses or the Vaudois) were a religious group that arose in the late Middle Ages and is now seen as a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Protestant rulers in northern Europe offered sanctuary to the remaining Waldensians. Location. Bchstdt-Malan Camusso, Christian (2002), "Per Una Storia dell'Industria Dolciaria Torinese: il Caso Caffarel", p. The first historian on the Waldensians, Gerolamo Miolo in his. In the renewed persecution, and in an echo of the Piedmont Easter Massacre of only three decades earlier, the Duke issued an edict on 31 January 1686 that decreed the destruction of all the Vaudois churches and that all inhabitants of the Valleys should publicly announce their error in religion within fifteen days under penalty of death and banishment. The new settlers were free in their religious services, and kept holding them in French till the 19th century. [25][26][27][28] They rejected the practice of venerating the saints, the use of oaths, secular courts and prayers for the dead. Thus, the American Waldensian Society makes public the contemporary and historic heritage to which Waldensian spirituality is committed: Tell the Story; Encourage "Crossings"; and Provide Financial Support. [112] 1949, Guglielmo Del Pesco (18891951), moderator of the Tavola Valdese (Waldensian round table), was invited back to Maulbronn, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Waldensian emigration to Germany. These Waldensians maintained their cultural heritage, while passing on their mixture of Mormon and Waldensian faiths to their descendants. The communities are distributedthroughout Italy, from Sicily to the Piedmont. He required that the local populace quarter the troops in their homes, which the local populace complied with. HISTORY OF WALDENSIANS OF BARRY COUNTY TRACED FROM COTTIAN ALPS Waldensians began as followers of Peter Valdo or Waldo (1140-1217), who gave all he had to the poor, and . These "Invincibles" continued their assaults until the Duke finally relented and agreed to negotiate. Others were buried alive. [78], However on the other hand some Hussites rejected Waldensian doctrines, including Jacob of Miles.[77]. D. The Bible of the Waldenses Brought from Judea. The American Waldensian Society assists churches, organizations and families in the promotion of Waldensian history and culture. Henri Arnaud's home in Schnenberg close to tisheim is a Museum today. Because of this shunning of wealth, the movement was early known as The Poor of Lyon and The Poor of Lombardy. They adopted the Huguenot Reformed Confession of faith, of the so called Synod "De la Rochelle" of 1559 (but it was really the Paris Synod, their first Huguenot General Assembly). The first Waldensian settlers from Italy arrived in South America in 1856. A. The Pope apologized for the Church's "un-Christian and even inhumane positions and actions". [125] The Monett congregation was among the first to be established in the United States, in 1875, by some 40 settlers who had formed the original South American settlement in Uruguay in the 1850s. By mid-April, when it became clear that the Duke's efforts to force the Vaudois to conform to Catholicism had failed, he tried another approach. However, when the French awoke the next morning they discovered that the Waldensians, guided by one of their number familiar with the Balsiglia, had already descended from the peak during the night and were now miles away. This will be the first church organized by a Waldensian Pastor in North America. pl.n. We love donations! The founding of the Waldensians is attributed to Peter Waldo, a wealthy merchant who gave away his property around 1173,[1][2] preaching apostolic poverty as the way to perfection. The group would shelter the barba and help make arrangements to move on to the next town in secret. John Milton, for example, wrote in his sonnet "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" of the 1655 massacre and persecution of the Waldensians. Waldensian groups migrated to other parts of the world, but the largest number came to Burke County in North Carolina. THE MISSION of the American Waldensian Society is to foster dialogue and partnership among Waldensian Churches in Italy and South America and Christian churches within North America in. In January 1655, the Duke of Savoy commanded the Waldensians to attend Mass or remove to the upper valleys of their homeland, giving them twenty days in which to sell their lands. 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