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 LANGUEDOC. 10 demned a number of the dead, exhuming and burmng then- bodies and inspiring such fear that a prominent believer, Kajnnond de Brol a flecf to Eome. At Moissac they condemned Jean du S^ho fled to Montsegur, and they cited a certam Folquet ^ho in terror, entered the convent of BeUeperche as a Ci^eman monk and finding that this was of no avail, finally fled to Lorn Wy' Meanwhile Frere Arnaud Catala and our chronicler, Guil- Im Peh son, descended upon Albi, where they penanced a dozen cMzeVs by ordering them to Palestine, and in conjunction with
 * Ser'nquisitor,'Guinem de Lombers, burned two heretics,

Pierre de Puechperdut and Pierre Bomassipio. ?he absence of the inquisitors from Toulouse -ade no d A ^ ence in the good work, for their duties were assumed by th«r ZTov Pons d! Saint-GiUes. Under what authority he acted is not !tld but we find him, in conjunction with another fnar, trying S Idemning a certain Arnaud Sancier, ^^J^J^^^^^, through the land was probably owing not only to the evidence they Sorded of an organized system of persecution but also to the perfected teacher who disdained to deny his fa th, and his burning was accepted by all as a matter of course, as also was that onr-creden^-'or beLer, who was defiant ycon^^^^^^^^^ T^ersisted in admitting and adhering to his creed. Hitherto How '^ irthe behever who professed orthodoxy seems generaUy to have etapefnL imperfection of the Judicial means of proving trguT Tke friars, t'rained in the subtleties «f d-put^- -/^ learned in both civil and canon law, were specially fitted for tfie Action of this particularly dangerous secret ^-^^^^'^^^ ^^ persistence in worrying their ™tims-to the death wa^ .^U calcu Led to spread alarm, not only among the guilty, but amon„ n^treasonable were the fears inspir^ by the sj^y info. maHty of the justice accorded to thejieretic^s wen ^^ Oft 1 t Ibid. p. 22.
 * Pelisso Chron. pp. 20-1.