Events Tagged: "perfecti"

Cathar perfecti practice endura - ritual fasting unto death after receiving consolamentum, seen as liberation from evil material world

Massacre at Minerve - 140 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant and are burned alive, first mass burning of the crusade

Massacre at Lavaur - 400 Cathar perfecti burned, Lady Guiraude thrown down well and stoned, 80 knights hanged

Cathar consolamentum described - single sacrament combining baptism, confirmation, ordination, and extreme unction, followed often by endura

Burning at Montségur - 225 Cathar perfecti refuse to recant, walk voluntarily into huge pyre at base of mountain

Last known Cathar perfectus burned - Guillaume Bélibaste executed in Villerouge-Termenès, Catharism extinct