The Cagots 'Templers And The Holy' Inquisition

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The case was that those people were hated by the catholic church, so they were persecuted and killed of the ways you may imagine, even, initially, the "Holy" Inquisition was created with this aim... - and they called it "Holy".. awful...without words!- All who defend the theory the Cagots were descendants from the cathars or albigensians, are based on that only a religious question can trigger a hatred of such wingspan. Other theory which might explain that hatred, according some experts, could be that the Cagots could have belonged to a brotherhood of builders related with the order of Templers, since they built many temples and, according it used to say, they knew the secrets for their construction, nevertheless, they were forbidden come

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