# Cruel Mode Of Inquisition Over The Doctrine Of The Waldenses, Or Of Those Called Heretics, A. D. 1214.

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In the year 1214, Conrad of Marpurg, a Dominican
friar, was appointed by Pope Innocent III., grand
inquisitor of the faith over all Germany, and sent by
him closely to search out and examine such as were
said to have strayed from the faith of the Roman
church. This commission he carried out with such
cruelty for full nineteen years, that an incredible
number of persons, declared heretics by him, were
put to death, partly by fire and partly with the sword.

Trithemius speaks of the manner of this inquisition,
saying: “That this inquisitor, Conrad of
Marpurg, used to try the heretics (the true Christians),
by giving them a red-hot iron into their
hands, and to deliver all those that were burnt by it
as heretics unto the secular judge, to be sentenced to
the fire.” Hence it came that only very few escaped,
but that all who were once accused and brought to
him for examination were, without mercy, condemned
by him as heretics to be burned.

“There were some,” he writes, “who held that
he condemned very many innocent persons, because
the red-hot iron, finding none without sin, although
they otherwise had never been tainted with any
heresy, burned almost every one that took it.”
Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug., A. D. 1214 and 1215.
Also A. Mell., 2d book, fol. 459, col. 3; also
fol. 466, col. 4.



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