Cathar
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Cathari,
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Cathars
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Origin of Cathar
First recorded in 1630–40; from Late Latin Catharī (plural), from Late Greek hoi Katharoí “Novatians,” literally, “the pure”; applied in Medieval Latin to various sects
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This is the second, through Cathar country in the rarely visited eastern Pyrenees.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2021
The blood of St. Peter Martyr, who was killed by Cathar heretics in 1252, was also accorded medicinal properties.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
The Cathar defenders pose a question to the skeptics: If the crusade was not about quashing this religious movement, then what motivated so many Christians to take up arms and kills thousands of other Christians?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
Cathar scholars say doubters are too hung up on the name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
The Ritual in Slavonic written by the Bosnian Radoslavov, and published in vol. xv. of the Starine of the South Slavonic Academy at Agram, shows great resemblance to the Cathar ritual published by Cunitz, 1853.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
Most of the Cathari, however, remained among the "believers," free to live ordinary lives in the world in the hope of salvation without the rigor of living as a "perfect."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Turkish lands the Cathari for the most part embraced Mahometanism, and the sect which had so stubbornly endured the vicissitudes of more than a thousand years disappeared in obscurity.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
The burgesses of his cities, independent and intractable, were for the most part Cathari.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
On the mainland, in spite of the vigilance of the Inquisition, Cathari continued to exist in Piedmont.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
The various sects into which the Cathari were divided were further known by special names, as Albanenses, Concorrezenses, Bajolenses, etc.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
Mr. Hoare burnished his legacy in a slew of memoirs, and late in life spent two decades in France, studying a medieval Christian sect known as the Cathars that he chronicled in a historical novel.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020
At first blush, the Cathars make for unlikely modern-day heroes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
Rather than being a marketing ploy, the reemergence of interest in the Cathars over the last half a century has been the fruit of that scholarship and digging, Jimenez-Sanchez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
For their considerable pains, the Cathars were memorialized and celebrated as martyred religious rebels by a region of southern France that, eight centuries later, still promotes itself under their name: Pays Cathare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
Who has not heard of the Cathars or Albigenses of the Middle Ages?
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
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