[12] Melia, quoting Venerabilis Patris Monetae Cremonensis Ordinis Praedicatorum adversus Catharos et Waldenses, Libri quinque (1244), p. 6.
[13] See Döllinger, vol. ii, pp. 306-11, for list of eighty-nine errors alleged against the Waldenses.
[14] Bernard Gui, Practica Inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis (ed. C. Douais, Paris, 1886), p. 134. ‘Item, circa sacramentum vere penitentie et clavis ecclesie perniciosius aberrantes, tenent et docent se habere potestatem a Deo, sicut sancti apostoli habuerunt, audiendi confessiones peccatorum sibi volentium confiteri, et absolvendi, et penitentias injungendi; confessiones talium audiant et injungant sibi confitentibus penitentias pro peccatis, quamvis non sunt clerici, nec sacerdotales per aliquem episcopum Romane ecclesie ordinati, nec sunt layci simpliciter; talemque potestatem nec confitentur se habere a Romana ecclesia, sed pocius diffitentur, et revera nec a Deo nec ab ejus ecclesia ipsam habent, cum sint extra ecclesiam et ab ipsa ecclesia jam precisi, extra quam non est vera penitentia neque salus.’ Cf. ibid., pp. 244 et seq.
[15] Quoted in Lea, vol. i, p. 85.
[16] Peter de Pilichdorff, quoted in Melia, p. 25.
[17] Quoted in Lea, vol. i, p. 85.
[18] See Schmidt, vol. i, pp. 7-24.
[19] The Paulicians had originally, in the seventh century, in Armenia, been anti-Manichæan. They became definitely Manichæan in the ninth. The French bougre-heretic means Bulgar. For Catharan doctrines and manners of life generally, see Bernard Gui, Practica, pp. 235 et seq.; for its theology see Döllinger, vol. i, pp. 34-50; vol. ii (Documents), pp. 282-96. The errors of the Cathari are summarised in Nicolas Eymeric, Directorium Inquisitorum (Rome, 1585), part ii, question xiii, pp. 290-2.
[20] See Schmidt, vol. ii, pp. 9, 11, 16.
[21] Ibid., pp. 21-2; also C. Douais, Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’Inquisition dans le Languedoc (Paris, 1900), vol. ii, pp. 95-6. Examination of a Catharan, Pierre Garcia. Garcia said, ‘quod erat unus Deus benignus qui creavit incorruptibilia et permansura, et alius Deus erat malignus qui creavit corruptibilia et transitoria.’