St. Peter Martyr met his end fighting this heresy, which was given its name at the council of Tours by Pope Innocent III.
St. Peter Martyr met his end fighting this heresy, which was given its name at the council of Tours by Pope Innocent III. Like many gnostic heresies, it regarded procreation and sexual intercourse with horror. Believers abstained from eating all animals except fish and the ultimate goal was spiritual liberation from the body, which many accomplished through suicide. FTP, name this heresy, also called Catharism, which flourished in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
St. Peter Martyr met his end fighting this heresy, which was given its name at the council of Tours by Pope Innocent III.
{Albigensianism} (accept equivalents)