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  • "Catharism was a name given to a religious sect with gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th Century and flourished in the 12th and 13th Centuries...The Roman Catholic Church regarded the sect as heretical; faced with the rapid spread of the movement across the Languedoc and the failure of peaceful attempts at conversion, the Church launched the Albigensian Crusade and suppressed the Cathars with the help of nobility from northern France." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism So they are not the same, Catharism is derived from Paulicianisum which was a Christian sect between AD 7th and 9th centuries.

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