(A.D. 1229) A council called to address a growing neo-gnostic movement in southern France known as the Albigensiansa group of Christians in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries who were ruled heretics by the Catholic Church due to their independence from ... more. The council concluded that nobody in the area should possess copies of the Bible, especially vernacular translations. All such copies were to be burned and the homes of those in possession of them were also to be burned.
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