A.D. 1179 - Third Lateran Council
The eleventh ecumenical council, held at the Lateran in 1179 under pope Alexander III., and attended by more than 300 bishops, formally decreed that the Roman pontiff should be elected by a two-thirds vote of the cardinals (see Chapter V.), and sanctioned a, crusade against the "heretics," in the South of France and elsewhere, known as Cathari (= pure ones), Patarenians, Albigenses, &c. (see Chapter XII.).
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