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From: "James P. Robinson III" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Question about Huguenots
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:14 +0000


I really do not think this on topic here, but I believe you are
mistaken in several respects. The term "Protestant" does not refer to all
non-RC Western Christians. It refers specifically to the anti-RC Christian
sects that arose in Western Europe after Martin Luther. As a short hand,
you could say that the Protestant religions are those that trace their
origin to Calvin or Luther and then throw in the Episcopalians. The term
does not stretch to earlier heretical movements within the Cathlolic Church
like the Cathars and Albigensians. There is no connection between these
two groups and French Huguenots (a gulf of time divides them), unless it is
an undercurrent of resistance in the Southern French psyche.
Jim

As the clock struck 03:46 PM 3/10/2000 -0600, Louise Roberson took pen in
hand and wrote:
>Protestants (those who were not Roman Catholic)
>existed in the South of France as early as the 11th Century. The Cathars and
>the Albigense heretics have been overtly and covertly persecuted. Many of
>those who became Huguenots were descendants of these groups.

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