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Movement of the poor of Lyon, a Christian dissident movement emerged in France in the 12TH century between the followers of the merchant and later preacher Pedro Valdo. It was a forerunner of the reform by its critique of corruption, by the attempt to return to the evangelical poverty of the early Christians and the knowledge of the Bible in their own language. As it could not be less they were excommunicated at the Council of Verona of 1183 with the Cathars, the Albigensians, the Patarinos and other heretics. The same thing happened to them in the following century in Italy to the Dulcinistas or Dulcinianos. Many of them the church treated them with viciously torturándolos and burning them at the stake.