Dolcino, leading a fanatical horde of Apostolic Brehren who are in daily expectation of seeing the judgment of God on the Church, has since Segarelli’s execution maintained in the mountainous districts of Novara and Vercelli a guerilla warfare campaign against the crusaders who had been summoned to put him down.

Cold and hunger are still more dangerous enemies; and finally the remnant of his forces are captured by the bishop of Vercelli: about one hundred and fifty persons in all, including Dolcino himself and his "spiritual sister," Margareta, both of whom, refusing to recant, are burned at the stake on June 1, 1307.

This effectively ends the sect's history.

Later, in the middle of the century, traces of their activity will be found, especially in northern Italy, Spain, and France, but these are only isolated survivals.