13th century (source section) · Source account
Sixty Persons Called Albigenses, Burnt For The Faith, At Casser.
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In the year 1211, or a little before, when the count of Montfort, by order of the Pope, was exercising great tyranny for the purpose of exterminating the Albigenses, he learned, through an informer, or in some other way, that in a place called Casser, there resided many of these people, under the protection of the lord of said place. He therefore went to lay siege to it; but those within (namely, the garrison), seeing that they would not be able to hold out long, notwithstanding the place was tolerably strong otherwise, capitulated, with this agreement, that they would deliver into the hands of the enemy, those called heretics (or Albigenses); these the bishops sought to persuade to renounce their faith, but they could not prevail upon them in the least; in consequence of which sixty persons were burnt for the sake of that religion. Chass. Hist., Albig., lib. 3, compared with A. M. Hist., fol. 456, col. 4.
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SIXTY PERSONS CALLED ALBIGENSES, BURNT FOR THE FAITH, AT CASSER.
First Part. · AN ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO SUFFERED IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
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