Reporting from Montpellier, France — They lived simple lives of austerity and abstinence and suffered horrifying deaths, cut down by marauding armies and burned at the stake as heretics — or so the ...

Rachael Kohn: They were the most feared of mediaeval Christian sects: they were the Cathars. Hello, and welcome to The Ark, I'm Rachael Kohn. Their territory stretched from Italy to France and the ...

In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church. THE TWO CHURCHESCathars (left) perform the consolamentum (Cathar baptism) ...

The Cathars were a mysterious and persecuted religious group in medieval Europe, known for their unique beliefs and way of life. In this video, we explore who the Cathars really were – from their ...

Who knows how many religions, cults, sects, sub-rosa-meeting secret societies, and schools of thought were forgotten or wiped out throughout history? One intriguing example are the Cathars. Barely ...

Washington author Sophy Burnham’s novel is set in France during the Catholic Inquisition of the 1200s, a time of terror and genocide in which neighbors and friends ...

The cultural legacy of an ancient religious sect that was almost wiped out in the Inquisition is everywhere to be seen in the… The cultural legacy of an ancient religious sect that was almost wiped ...

Sitting in a small town in the French Pyrenees savouring my last bite of tender pork and Philippe Faur's unctuous foie gras icecream, I reflect on the past few days spent retracing Cathar history. I ...

Save £100 on a guided trail which follows in the footsteps of the last of the Cathars as they fled from France to Spain - along the path of the Bon Hommes – courtesy of HF Holidays, the UK’s largest ...