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Sep 3, 2020 · The Cathars were a Medieval heretical sect that terrified the Catholic Church. Their doctrines triggered a crusade that stamped out one of most successful and mysterious challengers to the ...
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Feb 15, 2023 · Was the Catholic Church Europe’s first revolutionary group? How are the Cathars linked to the genesis of genocide? Where does the term crusade come from?
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- Catharism was a dualistic faith. Instead of accepting the Catholic church’s dogma involving the Holy Trinity, the Cathars believed that the universe was ruled by two gods in conflict: a good, kind, and loving god who had created the spiritual realm, and an evil god who had created this material, earthly world with all of its suffering.
- They were very accepting of women. Cathars who wanted to be as spiritually pure as possible lived a strict life of celibacy, humility, and adherence to the bible, and were called perfecti.
- They were vegetarian/vegan. With the exception of fish, Cathar perfecti were expected to live on vegan fare, excluding eggs, cheese, and even the animal fat so often used in medieval cooking from their diets.
- Their faith was a rejection of – and reaction to – the Catholic church. Medieval Christians of all sorts were uncomfortable with how the church was run, from its wealth and how it gathered it (for example, through the sale of indulgences) to its reliance on priests and Latin.
Jun 1, 2024 · They were wrong. On the morning of July 22, 1209, the crusader rabble broke through the gates and started to ransack the city and kill civilians, Catholic and Cathar alike. In theory, the crusaders were under the command of a Cistercian abbot, Arnaud Amalric.
Nov 17, 2022 · Four Church Councils in 1119, 1139, 1148 and 1163 declared the Cathars to be heretics. The Council of Toulouse in 1119 and then the Lateran Council of 1139 urged the secular powers to proceed violently against heresy—they did not.
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May 13, 2020 · How were the Cathars wiped out? Although the war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1229, Cathars were by no means out of danger. In 1234, an Inquisition was established to root out any remaining Cathars and it was this that finally crushed the movement, with those who refused to recant their beliefs hanged or burned at the stake. Those who ...
