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Heretical sect of Christians (associated with
the Cathars) who flourished in S France near
Albi and Toulouse during the 11th-13th
centuries. They adopted the Manichean belief
in the duality of good and evil and pictured
Jesus as being a rebel against the cruelty of
an omnipotent God. The Albigensians showed a
consistently anti-Catholic attitude with
distinctive sacraments, especially the
consolamentum, or baptism of the spirit. An
inquisition was initiated against the
Albigensians in 1184 by Pope Lucius III
(although the Inquisition as we know it was
not established until 1233); it was, however,
ineffective, and in 1208 a crusade (1208-29)
was launched against them under the elder
Simon de Montfort. Thousands were killed
before the movement was crushed in 1244.