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What are the Albigensian and Waldensian Heresies?

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?

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  1. What are the Albigensian and Waldensian Heresies? By Hannah and Frances

  2. 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.”

  3. What is a heresy? • A heresy is a belief or false teaching that rejects the doctrine of the Catholic faith • Arianism • Macedonianism • Nestorianism

  4. 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”

  5. Influences of the Albigensians • St. Francis was influenced by their life of poverty • St. Dominic was influenced to start an order

  6. Combating the Albigensian Heresy • Pope Innocent and the Cather Crusade • The Papal Inquisition and Pope Gregory IX

  7. The Waldensians • Peter Waldo • Protestant Reformation • Vowed total poverty • Response to the Church growing rich and powerful

  8. Combating the Waldensian Heresy • Declared heretics, subject to persecution • Mendicant orders

  9. Works Cited • This is Our Church • www.history.com • www.newadvent.org • All images are from Google images

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