Fifty Persons Called Albigenses

This fire of the papal legate kept on burning and scorching, like a thunderbolt, among the defenseless flock of Christ, called Albigenses, or heretics, who had hidden themselves here and there, wherever they thought they might be safe.

In the meantime, fifty of these people at Chastelnau d'Ari were shut up and closely besieged, together with all who were in that place, by the count of Montfort, the commander in chief of the papal legate. Finally, when the place had been taken, all these people, since they would not depart from their faith, were burned alive; and so, having commended their souls to God, they gave their bodies for a burnt sacrifice.

Chassanion writes that when the Count of Montfort had taken the city of Chastelnau d'Ari, fifty persons were found in it who would rather be burned alive than be returned to the papistic religion. Compare Chassan., book 3, chapter 16, with A. Mell., second book, folio 457, column 1. [n431-1]