CATHARISM

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CATHARISM

The Cathari (also known as Albigenses) were a medieval, puritanical, and heretical movement called, by theologian Herman Hausheer of Lamoni, Iowa, “a repristination of Manichaeism and Gnostic christology, maintaining to be the only true church of a holy hierarchy and efficacious sacraments.” Translated, this means that the group claimed to have had proof that Jesus did not die on the cross, that he married Mary Magdalen, that they settled in the Languedoc, and that their heirs founded the Merovingian dynasty that united Christian Europe under Charlemagne.

(See Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s Montaillou, which by studying Inquisition notes describes the life of a medieval village. Also, see Massacre of the Albigensians.)

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