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
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
The central Cathar rite was consolamentum, or baptism with spirit and fire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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