In South America they number about 14,000, mostly in churches in Argentina and Uruguay, while they have at least 120 organized churches and 29,000 members in Italy.  
In South America they number about 14,000, mostly in churches in Argentina and Uruguay, while they have at least 120 organized churches and 29,000 members in Italy.  A new wave of immigration to the U.S. in the 19th-century resulted in large communities on Staten Island and Monett, Missouri, though they mostly merged with the Presbyterians in the 1970s.  Often confused with the Cathari, they were simpler, affecting a lifestyle of poverty, rejecting the veneration of saints, and the notion of purgatory.  FTP, name these "poor men of Lyon," a Christian movement that began in the 12th-century under Peter Waldo.
In South America they number about 14,000, mostly in churches in Argentina and Uruguay, while they have at least 120 organized churches and 29,000 members in Italy.  
Waldenses or Waldensians