“These heretics are worse than the Saracens!” exclaimed Pope Innocent III, and on March 10, 1208, he proclaimed a crusade against a sect in southern France that became one of the bloodiest blots in ...
In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church. THE TWO CHURCHESCathars (left) perform the consolamentum (Cathar baptism) ...
Wendy Orent on a cathartic tale of religious persecution in the 14th century Catharism, a mediaeval offshoot of Gnostic Christianity, burned through the Catholic landscape of 13th-century Europe as ...
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