heretication

Updated: January 6, 2026

This was the process of "heretication," the name given by the Inquisitors to admission into the Catharist Church; and, except in the case of the ministers, it was postponed until the believer lay upon his death-bed.

D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley - The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304