Cathar
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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 debate doesn’t seem to be hurting the region — the revival of interest in its cultural history shows no sign of slowing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
Farther south, the town of Mazamet is home to the Cathar Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
The Cathar Eucharist was equally primitive, and is thus described by a contemporary writer in a 13th-century MS. of the Milan Library:—”The Benediction of bread is thus performed by the Cathars.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" 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
This blessed bread was regarded with special reverence by the great mass of the Cathari, who were, as a rule, merely “crezentz,” “credentes,” or believers, and not fully received or “perfected” in the Church.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
Henceforth the Cathari could hope only in God.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
THE literature of the Cathari has been so successfully exterminated that anything attributable to the sect is of interest.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles
The Cathari continued to multiply under the avowed protection of Stephen and his magnates.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles
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
Any tourist visiting this region would find it hard to miss the ever-present signs and historical markers recounting the tragic tale of the Cathars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
“It does not need the ghost of the Cathars to arouse interest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
But in recent weeks, a debate has erupted across this region in newspapers, tourism offices, and in research conferences following an academic exhibition that explored a more modern-day heresy: The Cathars never existed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2018
The Cathars, Paulicians, Albigenses and so on held, with the Manichaeans, that the God of Nature, God the Father, was evil.
From God the Invisible King by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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