The last of the Cathars was burnt by the inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church at Montsegur, Languedoc, France in 1244, but they left this prophecy: that the Church of Love would be proclaimed in 1986.
Q. What is the opposite of a heretic?
heretic(noun) Antonyms: heterodox, orthodox. heretic(adjective) Heretical; of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
Table of Contents
- Q. What is the opposite of a heretic?
- Q. Why would someone be known as a heretic?
- Q. When were Cathars wiped out?
- Q. Where are the Cathar castles?
- Q. What does Cathar mean?
- Q. What is the Cathar cross?
- Q. Where is Cathar country?
- Q. What happened to the Cathars?
- Q. Why did the pope think the Cathars were such a big threat?
- Q. Why was heresy such a threat to the church?
- Q. What does Albigensian mean?
- Q. What religion was the focus of the Albigensian Crusade?
Q. Why would someone be known as a heretic?
The definition of a heretic is a person who violates established rules and tenants of a religion, or is a person who has views that don’t conform to the norm. An example of a heretic is a person who has views that do not conform to the views of the Roman Catholic church.
Q. When were Cathars wiped out?
13th century
Q. Where are the Cathar castles?
Cathar castles (in French châteaux cathares) are castles in the Midi – the South of modern France – dating from the Middle Ages and associated with the religion of the Cathars. Most of them are in the Languedoc.
Q. What does Cathar mean?
: a member of one of various ascetic and dualistic Christian sects especially of the later Middle Ages teaching that matter is evil and professing faith in an angelic Christ who did not really undergo human birth or death.
Q. What is the Cathar cross?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the Middle Ages, the Cathar yellow cross was a distinguishing mark worn by repentant Cathars, who were ordered to wear it by the Roman Catholic Church.
Q. Where is Cathar country?
France
Q. What happened to the Cathars?
Not surprisingly, the Cathars were condemned as heretical by the Catholic Church and massacred in the Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229 CE) which also devastated the towns, cities, and culture of southern France.
Q. Why did the pope think the Cathars were such a big threat?
Catharism is a threat to the Church because it rejects the Church as part of the material world. The Cathar movement in Page 2 effect draws on a kind of Manichaeism, a radical disjunction between the world of heaven and the material world. The world of Earth and the material world is fundamentally evil.
Q. Why was heresy such a threat to the church?
The heretic committed high treason against the political authority of the church and endangered the theocratic foundation of government. Orthodoxy (“right thinking”) was the ideological bedrock of social and political order, and the heretic threatened to undercut this foundation at its root.
Q. What does Albigensian mean?
: members of a Catharistic sect of southern France flourishing primarily in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Q. What religion was the focus of the Albigensian Crusade?
The Albigensian Crusade (1209–29) was a formative event in European history. At the medieval apogee of its power, the Roman Church called for the extirpation of heresy in southern France.
