Persecution of Christian heretics

Catharism ( ; from the , "the pure ones") was a Christian quasi-dualist and pseudo-Gnostic movement which thrived in northern Italy and southern France between the 12th and 14th centuries. Denounced as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church, its followers were attacked first by the Albigensian Crusade and later by the Medieval Inquisition, which eradicated them by 1350. Thousands were slaughtered, hanged, or burned at the stake.

1209 military campaigns against Catharism in southern France

massacre

Christian church in medieval Bosnia

Italian preacher (1250-1307)

community descended from Muslims and Jews

Kongo Empire guérisseuse (1684-1706)

12th century heresiarch

1209 killing of Cathars during the Albigensian Crusade

German Anabaptist martyr, author of the Schleitheim Confession

1235 crusade against Bosnian heretics

1209 siege

series of massacres on Waldensians in Piedmont, Italy

Swedish heretic

series of conflicts