“The information about the early British Christians covers the years from before A.D. 300 through 800. Very early, before A.D. 300, Christian missionaries came to Britain with pure Bible truths. Upon being persecuted, they fled northward to Scotland, and thence to Ireland. Columba (521-597) from Ireland, went to Scotland and founded an island missionary station on Iona in 563. From there, missionaries were sent to many European countries, and finally in 614 to Italy. Roman agents arrived in A.D. 596 and won the heathen Saxons to their worldly religion. For more than a thousand years, Christians were heavily persecuted; throughout this time believers in the Bible Sabbath continued to share their faith in parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The history of the Waldenses (also called Vaudois) spans more than a millennium of persecution and bloodshed, till the mid-19th century. It was Pope Innocent VIII who, in 1487, ordered them to be “crushed as venomous serpents.”” ~Chapter Introduction, Harvestime edition.
https://m.egwwritings.org/en
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whiteestate.egwwritings
http://ellenwhiteaudio.org/
http://ellenwhite.org/
http://bibletools.info/Gen_1.1
source
Piercing The Darkness