Text in Dutch. There exists in the history of the Roman Catholic Church is hardly a bloodier chapter than the struggle against the Cathars, who were rebelling against the moral decay of the Orthodox clergy. Catharism unfolded in the course of the 12th century in the south of France to a direct threat of traditional Christianity. Eventually was commissioned by the Pope to fire and sword put an end to the rise of Catharism. The way they accepted their cruel fate and convinced of their faith fire deaths occurred, still speaks to our imagination. Angie Nolen describes the history of the Cathars and brings the locations where the crusade against them took place in picture.