Christian Heresies of the
Twelfth Century:
Petrobrosians:
Peter de Bruis, a monk, rejected
the baptism of infants; condemned altars and churches; prohibited the veneration
of the Cross; rejected the Mass and Holy Eucharist; and denied the utility of
prayers for the dead. These errors were all condemned by the Second Council
of the Lateran in 1139.
Peter de Bruis, tired of the restraint of the cloister,
apostatized, and fled to the province of Arles, where, about 1118, he began to
preach his errors Twenty years later the populace of St. Gilles, near Nimes,
exasperated by his burning of cross, cast him into the flames.
Henricians:
Henry of Lausanne, a cluniac monk, rejects the rites and
authority of the Church and insisted upon personal responsibility as opposed to
authority in religious matters.
Henry left his monastery and began to preach to the people.
He joined in with the Petrobrosians in Provence, was arrested and confined to a
cell as a heretic. Subsequently release, he was again arrested and died in
prison in 1149.
Waldenses:
By Peter Waldo in 1176. The errors were: the Catholic Church erred in accepting temporal property;
they condemned tithes; believed in only two sacraments, Baptism and the
Eucharist; held that layman could absolve from sin, but that a sinful priest
could not; rejected indulgences, fasts and all the ceremonies of the Church;
made no distinction between mortal and venial sins; claimed the veneration of
sacred images to be idolatry, and condemned all oaths to be unlawful. Condemned
by the Third Council of the Lateran in 1179.
Peter Waldo, a wealthy merchant of Lyons, carried out literally the
counsel of Christ: "If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast and give
to the poor". In 1176 he completed the distribution of all his earthly
possessions and took a vow of poverty shortly afterwards. This action of his
created a great stir in Lyons and he soon had imitators, many of whom began to
preach in the streets. They soon fell into error an were condemned as heretics
by numerous synods and councils, but especially by the Third Council of the
Lateran in 1179.
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