Montségur and the Mystery of the Cathars ( J Markale )
O N MARCH 16, 1244, after a year-long siege, more than two hundred Cathars were captured in their fortress stronghold of Montségur in the Pyrenees and burned alive by troops of the Inquisition. Whiie some Cathar enclaves survived into the next century, this was the death blow to a religion that had been a powerful symbol of Occitain sovereignty despite the designs of the French monarchy and the papacy. History bas recorded that, on the night before the fall of the fortress, four high ranking Cathar peifecti carried away a great treasure from Montségur, a fact that led rebel Huguenots of the seventeenth century and members of Hitler’s S.S. to believe that something of awesome spiritual power lay hidden somewhere near the ruins of the Cathar stronghold.
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