Posada del Castillo B&B, Carcassone Urban Rooms

Celibrate your success for the coast having a swim around the beautiful sandy beaches or visiting Collioure. At evening obtain the tranquility of La Posada preparing here your visits for the next day and learn the Cathar Country....

Catharism was a Gnostic movement that originated across the middle of the 10th century, branded with the contemporary Roman Catholic Church as heretical. It existed throughout high of Western Europe, however its home was at Languedoc, in southern France. The name Cathar probably originated in Greek catharos, "the pure ones". Another suggested origin was from Latin cattus, for "cat", which are usually associated with witches and heretics. More than likely case a myth initiated from the Roman Catholics. Among the first recorded uses is Eckbert von Schonau who wrote on heretics from Cologne in 1181: "Hos nostra germania catharos appellat."

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The Cathars are also called Albigensians. This name comes from eliminate the 12th century, and was adopted through the chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois in 1181. The name refers to the southern capital of scotland- Albi (the ancient Albiga.) The designation is hardly exact, for your centre is at Toulouse plus the neighbouring districts. The beliefs came originally from eastern Europe by using trade routes. The category of Bulgarians (Bougres) was also put on the Albigenses, and they maintained vital with all the Bogomils of Thrace. Their doctrines have several resemblances to prospects of the Bogomils, and still more to people from the Paulicians, with whom also, they are sometimes connected. It is not easy in order to create any precise concept of the Cathar doctrines, as all of the existing understanding of them is derived from their opponents, and the few texts from your Cathars (the Rituel cathare de Lyon along with the Nouveau Testament en provencal) contain very little information concerning their beliefs and moral practices. What's certain is that they formed an anti-sacerdotal party versus the Roman church, an extended protest up against the corruption from the clergy. The Cathar theologians, called Cathari or perfecti (in France bons hommes or bons chretiens) were rare; the mass of believers (credentes) just weren't initiated to the doctrine whatsoever - these were free of all moral prohibition and many types of religious obligation, given that they promised by an act called convenenza to get "hereticized" by finding the consolamentum, the baptism of the Spirit, before their death.

The 1st Cathars appeared in Limousin between 1012 and 1020. Several were found and set to death at Toulouse in 1022. The synods of Charroux (Vienne) (1028) and Toulouse (1056) condemned the growing sect. Preachers were summoned to the districts with the Agenais as well as the Toulousain to combat the heretical propaganda within the 1100s. The Cathars, however, gained ground from the south due to the protection distributed by William, Duke of Aquitaine, which distributed by a substantial proportion of the southern nobility. The folks were in awe of the bons hommes, along with the anti-sacerdotal preaching of Peter of Bruys and Henry of Lausanne in Perigord.

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