The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60098 Message #961246
Posted By: mack/misophist
29-May-03 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day
Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Bernard's Day
Time for a rounded approach. In the Albigensian Crusade, Abbot Bernard, forbidden by cannon law to kill with a sword, gleefully took up a mace to help kill the people of Albi. Their biggest crime was thaqt they were essentially better Christians than he was. They were also Manichaean heretics, but what caused the trouble was gaining converts from the mainstream church.