Peculiar interest attaches to the statements of Reinéri Saccho[44] because he had once been a Catharist (but not a Waldensian), and wrote as an Inquisitor (A.D. 1254). He distinguishes between Catharist and Waldensian, but his remarks refer primarily to the heretics of Lombardy, although he is careful to point out that their opinions differ little from Catharists in Provençe and other places. He charges the Waldensians with thirty-three errors, amongst which are:
(2) Belief in Traducianism. "The soul of the first man was made materially from the Holy Spirit, and the rest through it by traduction."
(6) Any good man may be a son of God in the same way as Christ was, having a soul instead of a Godhead.
(8) To adore or worship the body of Christ, or any created thing, or images or crosses, is idolatry.
(9) Final penance (poenitentia) avails nothing.
(11) The souls of good men enter and leave their bodies without sin.
(12) The punishment of Purgatory is nothing else than present trouble.
(14) Prayers for the dead avail nothing.
(15) Tenths and other benefactions should be given to the poor, not to the priests.
(18) They derided Church music and the Canonical Hours.