Some of these sects were cruelly crushed by merciless persecution, as in the case of the Albigenses.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI."
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Hence, one of the first and greatest champions of the Church in controversy with the Albigenses - Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny - at the very beginning of the heresy, found no better means of opposing the new errors than attacking every thing coming from the East.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
All historians agree in giving an Eastern origin to the Paulicians, Bulgarians, Albigenses, and others of those times.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud