Catharism
Americannoun
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And in modern France, where popular apostasy from Catholicism is today wider and deeper than anything Pope Innocent could have imagined, the ancient heresy of Catharism is enjoying a remarkable revival of interest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thanks to recent research, an increasing amount is known about Catharism.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1226 an effort was made to check the rapid spread of Catharism in Florence by the arrest of the heretic bishop Filippo Paternon, whose diocese extended from Pisa to Arezzo.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The troubles occasioned by Catharism at Vezelai in 1167 have already been alluded to, and the sharp repression of heresy then had put an end to its outward manifestation without destroying its germs.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
The condemnation of marriage and the rejection of meat constituted, with the prohibition of oaths, the chief external characteristics of Catharism, by which the sectaries were marked and known.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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