International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Volume 8 Issue 1 Sacred Journeys 6 Article 8 2020 Resurrection of a Heretic Religion Through Pilgrimage: the Cathar Case Study Pierre Fournie University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée-France,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp Part of the Tourism and Travel Commons Recommended Citation Fournie, Pierre (2020) "Resurrection of a Heretic Religion Through Pilgrimage: the Cathar Case Study," International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 8. doi:https://doi.org/10.21427/0jra-xw74 Available at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol8/iss1/8 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. © International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage ISSN : 2009-7379 Available at: http://arrow.dit.ie/ijrtp/ Volume 8(i) 2020 Resurrection of a Heretic Religion Through Pilgrimage: The Cathar Case Study Fournié Pierre University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée-Cité Descartes, France
[email protected] Six hundred and ninety-eight years have passed since Guilhem Bélibaste, the last known Perfect or Albigensian was burned at the stake in Villerouge-Termenès. His execution, in 1321, ended the official presence of the Cathars – who preferred to call themselves Good-Men and Good-Women- in the South of France. The Catholic Church, feeling that the influence of this alleged heretic movement threatened its power, started procedures around 1147 to at first control the Cathars peacefully, but failing to do so, later felt it had to destroy them, by means of crusades and the Inquisition.