What are the Albigensian and
Waldensian Heresies?
By Hannah and Frances
The Middle Ages The Fall of Rome: 476 AD
The Dark Ages or the Medieval Period
“Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict,
terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion, resistance and renaissance.”
What is a heresy?A heresy is a belief or false teaching that rejects the doctrine of the Catholic faith
Arianism MacedonianismNestorianism
The Albigensians Material reality was evil, marriage was bad, and suicide was normal
Two spirits; a good and a bad oneJesus as a creature Lived in the south of France during the 12th
- 13th centuries “Perfection, poverty, and preaching”
Influences of the Albigensians
St. Francis was influenced by their life of poverty
St. Dominic was influenced to start an order
Combating the Albigensian Heresy
Pope Innocent and the Cather CrusadeThe Papal Inquisition and Pope Gregory IX
The Waldensians Peter Waldo
Protestant Reformation Vowed total poverty
Response to the Church growing rich and powerful
Combating the Waldensian Heresy
Declared heretics, subject to persecution
Mendicant orders
Works CitedThis is Our Churchwww.history.com www.newadvent.org All images are from Google images