Béziers
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Béziers is a city in southern France. It is a subprefecture of the Hérault department in the Occitanie region. Every August Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, which is centred on bullfighting.
Town hall
Entrance of The Plateau des Poètes
The Hôtel de Ville
The old bridge
Catharism
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Catharism was a Christian quasi-dualist and pseudo-Gnostic movement in northern Italy and southern France between the 12th and 14th centuries.
Béziers
…ruled for the next 142 years, until the Albigensian Crusade, a formal crusade (holy war) authorised by Pope Innocent III. Béziers was a stronghold of Catharism, which the Catholic Church condemned as heretical and exterminated in the Albigensian Crusade. The crusaders reached Béziers on 21 July 1209. Béziers…
St. Paul, by Valentin de Boulogne.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Hieronymus Bosch
Painting by Pedro Berruguete portraying the story of a disputation between Saint Dominic and the Cathars (Albigensians), in which the books of both were thrown on a fire and Dominic's books were miraculously preserved from the flames.
Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209.