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Albigensian   Listen
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Albigensian  adj.  Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.






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"Albigensian" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Fabre des Essarts was condemned by Leo XIII with some severity as a revival of the old Albigensian heresy, with the addition of new false and impious doctrines, but it still has many followers. The Neo-Gnostics believe that this world is a work of wickedness, and was created not by God but by some inferior power, ...
— Modern Saints and Seers • Jean Finot

... not ignorant fanatics, but well-trained and cultured men. Entire communities seemed to be possessed by a desire for knowledge and for righteousness. Dominic clearly perceived that only preachers of a high order, capable of advancing reasonable argument, could overthrow the Albigensian heresy. ...
— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries • Alfred Wesley Wishart

... fortifications, which you may buy from the accomplished custodian. The writer makes a jump to the year 1209, when Carcassonne, then forming part of the realm of the viscounts of Beziers and infected by the Albigensian heresy, was besieged, in the name of the Pope, by the terrible Simon de Montfort and his army of crusaders. Simon was ac- customed to success, and the town succumbed in the course of a fortnight. Thirty-one years later, having passed into ...
— A Little Tour in France • Henry James



Words linked to "Albigensian" :   Albigensianism, Albigenses



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