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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Albigenses
		The name Albigenses, given them by the Council of Tours (1163) prevailed towards the end of the twelfth century and was for a long time applied to all the heretics of the south of France.
		The Council of Reims (1148) excommunicated the protectors "of the heretics of Gascony and Provence." That of Tours (1163) decreed that the Albigenses should be imprisoned and their property confiscated.
		Pope Innocent III was justified in saying that the Albigenses were "worse than the Saracens"; and still he counselled moderation and disapproved of the selfish policy adopted by Simon of Montfort.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01267e.htm (2060 words)

	Albigenses
		The Albigenses denied the resurrection of the body since it was considered evil.
		The Albigenses taught that Jesus was God but that He only appeared as a man while on earth.
		In 1208, Peter de Castelnau, an official representative of the Pope, was murdered by an Albigenses.
	www.carm.org /heresy/albigensis.htm (334 words)

	Albigenses. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Albigenses were extremely ascetic, abstaining from flesh in all its forms, including milk and cheese.
		In the practice of asceticism as well, the contrast between local clergy and the Albigenses was helpful to the new sect.
		Local bishops were ineffectual in dealing with the problem, and the pope sent St. Bernard of Clairvaux and other Cistercians to preach in Languedoc, the center of the movement.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/Albigens.html (586 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Albigenses
		Albigenses, followers of the single most important heresy within the Christian Church during the Middle Ages.
		After the Albigenses were crushed, the Waldenses became the victims of the Inquisition in France.
		Although the Inquisition in the beginning directed most attention to the Albigenses and, to a lesser degree, the Waldenses, it later extended its...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Albigenses.html (95 words)

	The books by Gilles C H Nullens
		The Albigenses were believers in the Manichaean dualistic system that flourished in the Mediterranean area for centuries.
		The Albigenses believed that the whole of existence was a struggle between two gods: the god of light, goodness, and spirit, usually associated with Jesus ; and the god of evil, darkness, and matter, identified with Satan.
		Small groups of Albigenses survived in isolated areas and were pursued by the Inquisition as late as the 14th century.
	www.nullens.org /content/view/298/49 (19844 words)

	Concise History of the Baptists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Albigenses, who had been compelled to return into Languedoc, found themselves, with successive accessions, sufficiently numerous in 1222, in the places wherein their fathers had suffered, to animate them with a hope of renewing their instructions and reorganizing their churches.
		Driven from their homes, the Albigenses had migrated into Germany, Switzerland; some crossed the Alps, and found an asylum in the valleys of Piedmont, which were under the clement sceptre of the dukes of Savoy; while the Pyrenean mountains afforded a convenient retreat to thousands of these exiles.
		The Albigenses say, concerning the baptizing of children, that through their incapacity it nothing profiteth them to salvation; and that baptism ought to be deferred till they come to years of discretion, and when they can with their own mouth make a profession of faith.
	www.reformedreader.org /history/_orchard/ch02s09.htm (5688 words)

	"The Albigenses: Bearers of a Bygone Wisdom-Tradition" by Arne Wettermark /TITLE
		To this school the majority of Albigensic perfecti belonged; on the basis of the records it seems not too bold to call them "initiates" or wise men.
		Blavatsky counts the Albigenses, whereby she presumably means their perfecti, among the successors of the Gnostics, and abundant evidence shows that they possessed the true gnosis or wisdom-knowledge.
		Five years later the worst enemy of the Albigenses, the fanatic, halfblind Simon de Montfort, the scourge of the land, a living symbol of the destructive forces of war, was killed.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/23-73-4/ph-wett.htm (4525 words)

	Medieval Church.org.uk: The Carthari: Albigenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ALBIGENSES, a sect which from the beginning of the eleventh century spread rapidly and widely in Southern France, and maintained itself there till the middle of the thirteenth century; received its name from the city of Albi, Latin Albiga, the present capital of the department of Tarn, which was one of their principal seats.
		Of the doctrines of the Albigenses nothing is known with certainty.
		Finally the lords of the laud, the great barons and counts, openly placed themselves at the head of the movement; and in 1167 the Albigenses held an Albigensian synod at Toulouse for the purpose of perfecting their organization.
	www.medievalchurch.org.uk /h_cath_alb.html (1296 words)

	CHAPTER 5
		A.D. Having sketched the more prominent features of the Christian Church, for the first ten centuries, and arriving at that period in which we are to give the reader some account of the Waldenses, it will be proper to introduce the subject by an attempt to ascertain the origin of their distinguishing appellation.
		ALBIGENSES became latterly their common name in France, from the great number of them that inhabited the city of Alby, and the district of Albigeois, between the Garonne and the Rhone: but that name was not general and confirmed till after the council of Alby in the year 1254, which condemned them as heretics.
		In fact, their doctrine, discipline, government, manners, and even the errors with which they have been charged (by the Catholics,) show that the Albigenses and Waldenses were distinct branches of the same sect, or that the former were sprung from the latter.
	www.wayoflife.org /articles/jones24.htm (3312 words)

	THE ALBIGENSES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The fact is that the Albigenses believed indeed "in the existence of dual forces - good and evil - neither being necessarily triumphant", but they believed in a great deal more, and they vigorously applied their beliefs to practical life.
		The crusade proclaimed against them may in some cases have outstepped the limits of justice, but it was preferable to the irregular murders and lynchings in districts where the Albigensian fanaticism had wrought havoc in the home and destroyed family life together with marriage.
		To picture the Albigenses as a sort of primitive Protestants, a kind of early Puritans, loving their Bible, stern but strict and upright, may have been the fashion in evangelical circles fifty years ago.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /cite/staff/philosopher/albigens.htm (1816 words)

	SECTION 6
		On the contrary, they everywhere attacked the Albigenses, took possession of the cities in which they were known to be, filled the streets with slaughter and blood, and committed to the flames numbers whom they had taken prisoners.
		The catholic inhabitants of Beziers now interposed, using every entreaty with the Albigenses to comply with that stipulation, and not be the occasion of their death, since the legate was resolved to pardon none, unless they all consented to live in subjection to one rule of faith.
		Finding the Albigenses inflexible, the Catholic party next sent their own bishop to the legate, to entreat him not to comprehend in the punishment of the Albigenses, those that had always been constant and uniform in their adherence to the church of Rome.
	www.wayoflife.org /articles/jones29.htm (6365 words)

	Cathars - France.com
		The name of Bulgarians (Bougres) was also applied to the Albigenses, and they maintained an association with the Bogomils of Thrace.
		It is difficult to form any precise idea of the Albigensian doctrines, as all the existing knowledge of them is derived from their opponents, and the few texts from the Albigenses (the Rituel cathare de Lyon and the Nouveau Testament en provencal) contain very little information concerning their beliefs and moral practices.
		This implacable war threw the whole of the nobility of the north of France against that of the south, and involved as well the king of Aragon who owned fiefdoms and had vassalls in the area.
	www.france.com /docs/72.html (1374 words)

	[No title]
		The word " Albigenses " is a term applied loosely to the various pre-Reformation reformers whose strongholds stretched from Northern Spain across the southern provinces of France to Lombardy and Tuscany.
		The wealth of the Catholic clergy, their greed for temporal power, and other abuses of the times were the objects of assiduous denunciation by the Albigenses, who maintained that they alone possessed the true secret of Christianity, having had it handed down to them traditionally from the times of the Apostles.
		As makers of paper the Albigenses must necessarily have come into close relations with the men who used and bought paper from them, and there is therefore nothing surprising or irrational in the suggestion that printers were deeply tinctured with Albigensian ideas.
	djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/nlotr.txt (18188 words)

	Concise History of the Baptists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was made the honored instrument of awakening the attention of many to the great concerns of eternity, and pointing them to "the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." He was under the protection and favor of a nobleman, named Hildephonsus.
		276] Bernard says, "the Albigenses were called Henricians, from this person;" "they boast," he adds, "that they are the true successors of the apostles, and the faithful preservers and followers of their doctrine: they are simple men, and rude in their manners, yet many clergymen, bishops, and lay princes condescend to favor them.
		Consequently, the Albigenses, Paulicians, or Waldenses, in Gascogne and Provence, were excommunicated; and all persons under the fear of the pontiff were forbidden to entertain them in their houses or country.
	www.reformedreader.org /history/_orchard/ch02s08.htm (5056 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A branch of the Cathari (a dualistic, purist sect) who were dominant in southern France from the XII-XIV Centuries, the Albigenses believed that two supreme beings had charge of the world.
		Jesus did not, say the Albigenses, suffer in the flesh: he was an angel with a phantom body, and all his sufferings were allegorical.
		In the XII Century, the Albigenses presented their own Bible, which included both the Old and New Testaments, and set up their own church structure in a federation of communities.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/albigenses.html (365 words)

	Albigensian Crusade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Albigenses were a Cathar sect that first appeared in Limousin, south-central France, in the early eleventh century.
		It is exceedingly difficult to form any very precise idea of the Albigensian doctrines because present knowledge of them is derived from their opponents and from the very rare and uninformative Albigensian texts which have come down to us.
		In 1214 he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to press his crusade against the Albigenses, a heretical Christian sect flourishing in western Europe.
	papacyuncovered.homestead.com /files/Crusades/Albigensian_Crusade.htm (611 words)

	Pilgrim Church - THE NAME ALBIGENSES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The name Albigenses * does not appear until after the Council held at Lombers near Albi - see glossary about the middle of the twelfth century.
		The people brought for trial then made a confession of faith which did not differ much from what a Roman Catholic might have made; but as they had a conscientious objection to taking an oath in confirmation of what they had said they were condemned.
		In 1201 the visit of another leader, from Albania - see glossary, was the occasion of widespread revival in the South of France.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/thailand/PC-B-087.HTM (391 words)

	Were the Albigensians Primitive Protestants? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The RCC had previous to the Reformation instituted the bloody and hideous Inquisition, murdering of scores of Waldenses, Albigenses and Cathars.
		Their doctrine in its purest form was strongly dualist, akin to the Manichaean beliefs, and they rejected the flesh and material creation as evil.
		Opponents describe the Albigenses as rejecting the sacraments, the Mass, the veneration of images, the Trinity, and the Virgin Birth; Christ was an angel, but not one with God.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ290.HTM (1649 words)

	Spero News \| Albigenses, St. Francis and a pot roast recipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Albigenses (a form of Catharists, literally Puritans, who took an extreme dualist view of the universe) had run rampant through southern France and northern Italy for about 200 years.
		Like the radical environmentalists of today, the Albigenses pushed for zero population growth, detesting marriage and advocating suicide by starvation and poison.
		While there are valid reasons to moderate one’s meat consumption, both as a health measure and as a spiritual practice, the eating of meat is a statement of the goodness of created matter and serves as a renunciation of modern Catharists.
	www.speroforum.com /site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=116&id=1369 (1206 words)

	BIO: Dominic Guzman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The turning point of his life came in 1206, when he was chosen to accompany the bishop on a visit to southern France, to an area held by the Albigenses.
		They seemed to be making some progress, but in 1207 the bishop died, and in the same year the murder by Albigenses of the papal legate moved the pope to declare a crusade against the Albigenses, which lasted about five years.
		Dominic continued to preach and to debate where he could, and in 1215 he founded an order of preachers, who were to live in poverty, and devote themselves to studying philosophy and theology and to combatting false doctrine by logical argument rather than by the use of force.
	www.hillsdale.edu /Personal/Westblade/REL/Biography/08/08.html (527 words)

	Allusions Project
		The Albigenses and Cathars were a religious sect from France during the late Medieval Ages.
		Generally, the Albigenses and Cathars held the same beliefs but were given different names.
		Like the Waldensians, the Albigenses and Cathars were thoroughly persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Estates/6776/middle/allusions.html (1516 words)

	[No title]
		They were often called Albigenses, a name taken from Albi, a district where there were many of them, but this name was never used by them, nor of them until a later period.
		The label of Cathars was not unique to the Albigenses; it had been used as early as the 3rd Century to describe the Novatians, then the Manicheans, but it is usually applied to medieval dualistic sects.
		The second irony is that the Albigenses were so non-Christian in their beliefs that one wonders why anyone would want to claim a link with them.
	www.angelfire.com /ok3/apologia/albigenses.html (2802 words)

	An Account Of The Holy Baptism In The Thirteenth Century: Summary Of Baptism In The Thirteenth Century
		From the year 1209 throughout this century, crusades are preached in the name of the pope; which were the cause of the destruction of thousands of Albigenses, who lived quietly and peaceably under certain papistic authorities; for certain reasons, however, we have not finished this account.
		When he came, several articles by which he was to be governed were laid before him; one of which was: That he should expel from his territories all the heretics (namely, the Waldenses, who lived quietly,and peaceably under him), together with their adherents, friends, and kindred.
		From this also it certainly is more than evident that the Albigenses lived quietly under their magistrates, and offered no resistance to the enemies; hence they were not hanged, like the conquered soldiers, but burnt as heretics.
	www.homecomers.org /mirror/martyrs041.htm (2729 words)

	Ellen White's Great Controversy Errors Exposed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"The Albigenses (so-called because they were most numerous near Albi, in Southern France), or Cathari (from the Greek word, katharoi, meaning pure ones), although claiming New Testament authority for their beliefs, were a heretical sect formed in the Roman Catholic Church during the twelfth century and resembling the Gnostics and Paulicians.
		Dualism was at the heart of their teachings--two gods, one evil and one good, matter being the essence of evil, etc. The evil god was the Jehovah of the Old Testament.
		We know the Albigenses did not preserve the truth "from century to century" because they were wiped out in 100 years.
	www.ellenwhite.org /gc2.htm (856 words)

	Albigenses
		Albigenses 12th century separated from the Church of Rome.
		Louis's war, was a terrible and bloody war, which has continued for several years, and thousands of innocent were slain.
		The Church of the Albigenses were drowned in blood.
	www.religion-portal.com /ReligionFinder/religions/Albigenses.htm (276 words)

	The Cathari or Albigenses (Part 3 of 10)
		The doctrine of the Paulicians was identical with that of the Albigenses in all essentials.
		It is high time that the aspersions on their character and conduct which have been passed on, with the connivance of the Church, from generation to generation, by a succession of irresponsible historians, not one of whom had studied the available documentary evidence, should be withdrawn."
		Not only were the Albigenses exponents of pure Christianity, but they were devoted apostles of Education.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/TheCathariOrAlbigenses.html (2382 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Inquisition
		The Albigenses, also called Cathari ("Pure Ones"), was a heretical Christian sect which had a large following in southern France, mainly in the regions of Toulouse and Languedoc, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
		By the fourteenth century, the Albigenses had ceased to exist, a powerful testament to the strength of the Inquisition.
		After the success with the Albigenses, the Inquisition was used on other heresies.
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/inquisition.html (1435 words)

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