the Cathars

The Cathars believed that the world had been made by a bad god.

An important tourist site, it is known as a centre of the Cathars.

Like the Cathars, they therefore rejected the sacraments as well.

Peter then suffered martyrdom, at the hands of the Cathars.

Later synods of 1233, 1246 and 1255 condemned the Cathars.

It was to wipe out the Cathars almost entirely over forty or so years.

Nevertheless, interest in the Cathars, their history, legacy and beliefs continues.

These areas have ruins from the wars against the Cathars which are still visible today.

The war against the Cathars did not end until 1244, when finally their last strongholds were captured.

The Cathars spent much of 1209 fending off the crusaders.

The Cathars were given the opportunity to convert to Catholicism.

For the Cathars these words have a contradiction.

The Cathars, especially the rigid dualists among them, opposed this view.

The Cathars could hear them shouting in the courtyard, the sound of dry wood catching light.

Other kinds of spiritualizations are to be seen among the Cathars.

Others joined the Cathars, another heretical movement condemned by the papacy.

However, they refused and resisted with the Cathars.

The Cathars believed that there were two principal powers in the Universe.

These may be directed at the Cathars, who denied Christ's humanity.

And, dour though they were, the Cathars were not devoid of heart.

The Cathars believed you had to forgo earthly pleasures.

In the end, both the Cathars and the independence of southern France were exterminated.

The Cathars went to the other extreme.

On the other hand, the Cathars lived in a state of apostolic self-sacrifice that was widely appealing.

'Well, it always seemed to me that the Cathars had got pretty close to it,' he said.