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What are the Albigensian and Waldensian Heresies?. By Hannah and Frances . The Middle Ages . The Fall of Rome: 476 AD The Dark Ages or the Medieval Period
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What are the Albigensian and Waldensian Heresies? By Hannah and Frances
The Middle Ages • The Fall of Rome: 476 AD • The Dark Ages or the Medieval Period “Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion, resistance and renaissance.”
What is a heresy? • A heresy is a belief or false teaching that rejects the doctrine of the Catholic faith • Arianism • Macedonianism • Nestorianism
The Albigensians • Material reality was evil, marriage was bad, and suicide was normal • Two spirits; a good and a bad one • Jesus as a creature • Lived in the south of France during the 12th - 13th centuries • “Perfection, poverty, and preaching”
Influences of the Albigensians • St. Francis was influenced by their life of poverty • St. Dominic was influenced to start an order
Combating the Albigensian Heresy • Pope Innocent and the Cather Crusade • The Papal Inquisition and Pope Gregory IX
The Waldensians • Peter Waldo • Protestant Reformation • Vowed total poverty • Response to the Church growing rich and powerful
Combating the Waldensian Heresy • Declared heretics, subject to persecution • Mendicant orders
Works Cited • This is Our Church • www.history.com • www.newadvent.org • All images are from Google images