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English
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"To Make a People Prepared for the Lord" : Italy's Waldensian Saints as a Case Study on Conversion
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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292
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Master's thesis
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"In 1850, Elder Lorenzo Snow organized the Italian Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Missionary work continued in Italy until 1867, when the mission was discontinued, due to a lack of progress. During those seventeen years, 171 individuals joined the Church, only seventy-two of whom remained faithful and gathered to the American West. In spite of these disappointing results, the Italian Mission provides an excellent glimpse into conversion itself. With only one exception, converts came from a small group of Protestants known as Waldenses, who had overwhelmingly resisted any attempts at conversion for over six centuries. The purpose of this thesis is to discover why certain members of this group converted and how their conversions occurred." (taken from author's abstract)