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 ^^, LANGUEDOC 104 Fovssenx who complained to Clement's cardinals that he had been nnfustl V aoLed but who subsequently asserted his heresy defiant- rSido recant, and was burned in 1309. This is the ody- m- iZe of the kind, for the wretched survivors -^0 were led oab^ jure and recant in 1319 were broken by prison and torture, and n^'S;::;: r wrlndoubtedly correct when he asserted that the troubles and hmitations imposed on the Inqu.it.on un^er Pbilinne le Bel led to the recrudescence of a heresy ^^hlch had Lenrarly extinguished. In the debate befoi. the king at Tou- ?ouse riol, Gufuem Pierre, the Dominican provincial, asserted hartieri we're then in Languedoc no heretics e-ej^t some o^^^ or fifty in Albi, Carcassonne, and Cordes, and or ^ ^^ Jeaf ^ around them. This was doubtless an exaggeration, but ^^ ith m proved prospects of immunity perfected missionaries were invited ZTlIlLy and Sicily, and the ^^^^^^^^^ increased Bernard Gui boasts that from 1301 to 1315 there ^ ere Tore than a thousand detected by the Inquisition, who confessed '""'.Trl^Ioitttl d'Ablis at Carcassonne in 1308. show 'reaTactivity rewarded by abundant -fts, and one of he witnesses in the trial of Bernard Delicieux tells us that, when the CisS; was able to resume its labors there, many h^tics and believers were promptly discovered.^ About the same perioQ c ™ce the se'ntencVof the Inquisition of Tou ouse publis .^^^ bv Limborch. In 1306 Bernard Gui had been appointed inquisitor at'T^ulouse. His numerous works attest his wide rar^e of ^am^ ing and incessant mental activity, while his P^^f ^^j^^^^^^^^^^^ wfs animated with a profound conviction of ^l^e ^^ckedne^^^^^^^^ heresy and of the duty of his Order to «f «-e f eve;^ ^^^'^ xnission to Eome. Two missions as P^P^^ ^^g^^ '^^ f J Sve the other to France, and two bishoprics t^^-^ J* ^uy and^^^^^^^^^^^ nttest the value set on his services by John XXII. With his ap '' TMolinier, Vln,. dans le midi de la France, p. lU.-MSS. Bib. Nat., foods latin, No. 4270, fol. 285.
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