Hildegard of Bingen tour- preaches against Cathars and others critical of the Church
1184 Episcopal Inquisition established
1200 Beguines established in the Low Countries
1203 Domenic sent on preaching mission to Cathar territory
1207 Esclrarmonde of Foix debates at the Council of Pamiers
1209 St Francis establishes mendicant order
July 22, 1209 Attack at Beziers, France; up to 20,000 put to the sword by the combined forces of the Pope(Not-So) Innocent III, the Cistercians and Philip Agustus, King of France. Beginning of the Albigensian Crusade
1216 Domenican Order of Preachers established to combat Cathars
1226 St. Francis dies
1231 Medieval Papal Inquisition given to Domenicans to control, with formal legal proceedings authorized to include torture
1244 Fall of Montsegur; flight of Cathars and troubadours to the protective courts of Spain and Germany
1296 Spiritual Franciscans declared heretical by Pope Boniface VIII
1310 Marguerite Porete burned at stake for Mirror of the Simple Soul
1311 Beguines declared heretical by Pope Clement V
1318 Spiritual Franciscans begin to be burned by Pope John XXII
1319 Waves of Beguines sent to the stake
A fish cannot drown in water by Mechthild of Magdeburg (1207-1294) English version by Jane Hirshfield Original Language German A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God?
Then shall I leap into love by Mechthild of Magdeburg English version by Frank J. Tobin Original Language German I cannot dance, Lord, unless you lead me. If you want me to leap with abandon, You must intone the song. Then I shall leap into love, From love into knowledge, From knowledge into enjoyment, And from enjoyment beyond all human sensations There I want to remain, yet want also to circle higher still
All things Hadjewich of Antwerp (13th century) All things are too small to hold me, I am so vast In the Infinite I reach for the Uncreated I have touched it, it undoes me wider than wide Everything else is too narrow You know this well, you who are also there