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