cathari
/ˈkæθəraɪ/
noun
- Members of a medieval Christian religious group in Europe that believed the material world was evil and followed a strict, simple lifestyle.
- Historians study the Cathari to understand religious dissent in the Middle Ages.
- Many Cathari lived in southern France before the Albigensian Crusade.
- The Cathari rejected the authority of the Catholic Church and its rituals.