As the three heretics walked to the gibbet, some young boys plunged sharp sticks through the cracks in the walkway. |
Simon is best known as the ruthless leader of the notorious Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics of southern France. |
They might have beheaded heretics and adulterers and amputated the limbs of petty thieves but they didn't bother us. |
It shouldn't surprise us if those trying to uphold this tradition are accused of being its heretics and saboteurs. |
Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with fortune tellers and soothsayers? |
He was now in the service of a king who viewed Protestantism as a serious threat to the social order and who actively prosecuted heretics. |