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Held in Rome under Pope Alexander III. A hearing was granted to Peter Waldo, who was being threatened with Excommunication for his teachings on poverty. Waldo faced ridicule by an Englishman, Walter Map, but the Pope ruled that Waldo could preach, but only at the invitation of a local Bishop.
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