Amid the towering Alps of northeastern Italy where the peaks point like fingers toward the skies, nestle fertile, grass-carpeted valleys. These valleys, which extend far into the heart of lofty mountains, open into each other through narrow mountain passes. For a thousand years these valleys sheltered a humble people who wanted to be true to God without following the Church of Rome.

Several hundred years after the apostle John wrote of a beautiful woman facing a fierce dragon in the last book of the Bible, the Waldenses fled from before Satan and his followers to find a refuge in the wilderness.

Here is the story of the true church of Jesus - branded as heretics and pursued relentlessly in a Holy War to extinguish by intrigue, lies, betrayal and persecution - those keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.