a group of Christians in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries who were ruled heretics by the Catholic Churcha term translated from the Greek word “Ecclesia” which means an assembly called together and is sometime translated as a congregation. A church is... more due to their independence from Rome and their dualistic belief regarding the divinity of spirit and depravity of the physical body similar to the Manichaeism influence in the early Churcha term translated from the Greek word “Ecclesia” which means an assembly called together and is sometime translated as a congregation. A church is... more. They were destroyed by a crusade waged against them between A.D. 1209-1229.
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