The Cathars

I'd heard the word Cathar but I didn't know any thing about their history until today.

" The Pope, Innocent III, called a formal crusade, appointing a series of leaders to head his holy army. There followed over forty years of war against the indigenous population. During this period some 500,000 Languedoc men women and children were massacred"

It really was the dark ages.

(Via Monkeyfilter)