A Wind to the Flame

Perched in the church tower, Walter Murat watched the enemy scale the walls of the city like a plague of multicolored locusts. Walter, his father, and several other Waldenses huddled in the church as the city began to die. Someone pulled open the main gate, and soldiers poured through it, burning and killing across the French city of Béziers. Would their plan to escape the doomed city succeed? And what had become of Walter’s mother, Madame Murat? Had the authorities already captured and executed her at the stake?


The life of a Waldensian was one of danger as he spread and taught the Word of God across Europe. Helen Godfrey Pyke describes a time when to possess even a fragment of Scripture could be a