young girl, who gave herself out to be miraculously inspired by the Virgin Mary, was reputed to have converted a great number of the disciples of Henry of Lausanne. It is impossible to designate definitely as Henricians one of the two sects discovered at Cologne and described by Everwin, provost of Steinfeld, in his letter to St Bernard (Migne, Patr. Lat., clxxxii. 676-680), or the heretics of Périgord mentioned by a certain monk Heribert (Martin Bouquet, Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, XII.550-551). According to the British Puritan Rev. Dr. William Wall, "the Petrobrusians -- otherwise called the 'Henricians' -- did own water-baptism, and yet deny infant-baptism.... Peter Bruis and Henry [of Lausanne were] the two first antipaedobaptist preachers in the world." The Jehovah's Witnesses suggest that Henry of Lausanne may have been one of a long line of "genuine anointed Christians" who defended Bible truth down through the ages. References Sources Peter of Cluny, Tractatus Contra Petrobrussianos, found in Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 189, pp. 720–850. Les Origines de l'hérésie albigeoise, by Vacandard in the Revue des questions historiques (Paris, 1894, pp. 67–83). W. Wall: op. cit. I p. xliv. External links Article on Petrobusians in the Catholic Encyclopedia Article on Hildebert of Lavardin in the Catholic Encyclopedia The Church and the Empire by Medley History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294. 1148 deaths 11th-century births 12th-century French people 12th-century Christian mystics Roman Catholic mystics Heresy in Christianity in the Middle Ages