The episode of 'unconversion' and its relationship to the 'God-given power' of Veronese 's painting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in Turin is described by Ruskin in slightly different terms at Works, 29.89, Works, 35.495, and Works, 36.288. The Waldensians, whose service in Turin Ruskin found so unconvincing, associated themselves with Peter Waldo, a twelfth century religious leader. According to Croly's 1827 edition of the Apocalypse ( Croly, The Apocalypse of St. John: a new interpretation) it was Peter Waldo who rekindled the divine flame in the Alps after Roman Catholicism ceased to be Christian and the Popes scattered 'the last embers of the faith in Italy', and at one stage Croly had considerable influence on Ruskin's thinking.
The Revd. Dr. George Croly (1780-1860), educated in Dublin, was Vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook, known for his anti-Catholic views, and a frequent guest in the Ruskin household. Ruskin refers to some of his views directly at Works, 8.267. In the third edition that passage was omitted as a 'piece of rabid Protestantism.