[Steppes] RE: Living in the past

[Jann Mays]

Gerita, I have to agree with you.  Their disappearance was probably due to the persecutions they endured by the church (and I have visited the torture museum in Carcassonne - shudder).  
 
I'm not certain, but the town you spoke of might be Albi.  As the story goes, there was a large number of practicing Cathars in that town, but the Catholics in the town left them alone so there were Catholics and Cathars living side-by-side.  The Pope put out a decree to kill everyone in the town.  One of his "knights" said, "But there are many of our people (Catholics) living in that town," to which the Pope replied, "Doesn't matter.  Kill them all, God will sort them out."  
 
I'm not Catholic bashing, either.  My native French history teacher, who taught us about the Inquisition, the tortures, the Cathars, etc., was very Catholic.
 
Gab

Gerita/Carolle Cox <hpockets at verizon.net> wrote:
I have to toss my tuppence in here:

Only the "Perfect" or "Elect" were Required to be celibate. The others
were encouraged to attempt to do the same, but since they weren't
perfected, back-sliding was understood although frowned upon. These
"lower echelons" might produce a child that became perfected, and that
was ok.

I think they died out because of the extreme and intense persecution
they suffered under "the Church" 's belief that they were heretics,
devil worshipers, and worse. I seem to recall one walled town that was
almost entirely Cathars being utterly depopulated by a French King.

Gerita
Too tired to go find that book now, sorry.

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the
sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within. -- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross


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"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998.


		
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