Arnoldists were a Proto-Protestant Christian movement in the 12th century, named after

Arnold of Brescia Arnold of Brescia ( 1090 – June 1155), also known as Arnaldus ( it, Arnaldo da Brescia), an Italian canon regular from Lombardy, called on the Church to renounce property-ownership and participated in the failed Commune of Rome of 1144� ...

, an advocate of ecclesiastical reform who criticized the great wealth and possessions of the Roman Catholic Church, while preaching against infant baptism and the

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.A Brief Sketch of the History of the Foreign Baptists By G. H. ORCHARD 1842 His disciples were also called "Publicans" or "Poplecans", a name probably deriving from Paulicians (The term "Publicani" would be generally used for any heretic, even a political traitor, through Europe). The Arnoldists were condemned as heretics by Pope Lucius III in the '' Ad abolendam'' during the

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in 1184. Their tenets would later be addressed by Bonacursus of Milan, c. 1190, in his ''Manifestatio haeresis Catharorum'', which refuted Arnoldist apostolic poverty and the incapacity of sinful priests to administer the sacraments.

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