Poster Art for Sale: Languedoc-Roussillon
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Carcassonne.
The only Catholic Churchman generally recognised as
having acquitted himself with honour during the whole
period of Cathar represion was a Franciscan friar
called Bernard Delicieux. He is shown here releasing
prisoners who had been condemned by Inquisitors to
the "mur" - walled up alone in the cold
dark cells for years. Delicieux was eventually charged
with treason by his Dominican enemies.
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