History of the crusades against the Albigenses in the thirteenth century [tr. from part of the Histoire des Français] with an intr. essay by the translator |
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... persons of the church , but which they could never obtain from the Popes themselves . The cardinals , therefore , when they were going to elect a new Pope , were accustomed to bind themselves , by the most so- lemn oaths , that whoever ...
... persons of the church , but which they could never obtain from the Popes themselves . The cardinals , therefore , when they were going to elect a new Pope , were accustomed to bind themselves , by the most so- lemn oaths , that whoever ...
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... as the work of the devil . They ridiculed the resurrec- tion of the flesh , and maintained that the soul of s Review & c . by a Roman Catholic clergyman , London , 1793 . each person was a devil or fallen angel in a xvi.
... as the work of the devil . They ridiculed the resurrec- tion of the flesh , and maintained that the soul of s Review & c . by a Roman Catholic clergyman , London , 1793 . each person was a devil or fallen angel in a xvi.
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Jean Charles Léonard SIMONDE DE SISMONDI. each person was a devil or fallen angel in a state of punishment for his pride , who would return to heaven , after having done penance in seven dif- ferent terrestrial bodies . They thought it ...
Jean Charles Léonard SIMONDE DE SISMONDI. each person was a devil or fallen angel in a state of punishment for his pride , who would return to heaven , after having done penance in seven dif- ferent terrestrial bodies . They thought it ...
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... persons of this sect before the time of Waldo , is clear from the ancient treatise concerning Antichrist against the Ro- manists , an . 1120 , published by Perrin , in his history of the Waldenses ; and also from an epistle of a certain ...
... persons of this sect before the time of Waldo , is clear from the ancient treatise concerning Antichrist against the Ro- manists , an . 1120 , published by Perrin , in his history of the Waldenses ; and also from an epistle of a certain ...
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... persons of this description resided , and were concealed , in the Rhetian and Cottian Alps , and in the vallies of those mountains , who were thence called Waldenses , as I have mentioned above . The progress of this sect was rapid and ...
... persons of this description resided , and were concealed , in the Rhetian and Cottian Alps , and in the vallies of those mountains , who were thence called Waldenses , as I have mentioned above . The progress of this sect was rapid and ...
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Page xv - For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming...
Page xv - Therefore watch, and remember that by the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Page xv - Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Page xv - Take heed, therefore, unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Page 152 - ... affairs ; and feeling some remorse at the manner in which he had amassed his treasures, he appropriated a part of them to the express purpose of repaying, after his death, those persons whose money he had unjustly taken in his lifetime. He died July 14, 1223, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, and the forty-fourth of his reign. By his first wife, Isabella of Hainault, he had only one child — Louis, who succeeded him. By Maria of Dalmatia he had a son ana a daughter.
Page xl - We cannot, therefore, be astonished if they have represented them to us with all those characters which might render them the most monstrous, mingled with all the fables which would serve to irritate the minds of the people against those who professed them.
Page 71 - The count,, seeing that this would produce great delay, ordered the rest to be massacred ; and the pilgrims, receiving the order with the greatest avidity, very soon massacred them all upon the spot.
Page 81 - They were, however, forced to content themselves with such fugitive peasants , as they could surprise in the fields, or some prisoners, taken in the castles which had dared to resist them. Those of Saint Marcel and of Saint Antonin furnished them with a considerable number of human victims. But when Simon de Montfort saw that the greater part of the population of the countries, where heresy had prevailed, was exterminated, and that the remainder had placed themselves out of the reach of his attacks,...
Page 31 - Beziers, and had pillaged the houses of all that they thought worth carrying off, they set fire to the city, in every part at once, and reduced it to a vast funeral pile. Not a house remained standing, not one human being alive. Historians differ as to the number of victims. The abbot of Citeaux, feeling some shame for the butchery which he had ordered, in his letter to Innocent III reduces it to fifteen thousand ; others make it amount to sixty.
Page 71 - Creator. The knights mounted the breach ; resistance was impossible ; and the only care of Simon de Montfort was to prevent the crusaders from instantly falling upon the inhabitants, and to beseech them rather to make prisoners, that the priests of the living God might not be deprived of their promised joys.