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secular canon

History; Medieval

# A clergyman who belonged to a cathedral chapter or collegiate church. Those who observed a written rule, often the Rule of St Augustine, were called regular canons. Those who ...

celibacy

History; Medieval

The state of being unmarried; required of western clergy in the major orders (bishop, priest, deacon, subdeacon) since the twelfth century.

cathars

History; Medieval

The word is derived from the Greek word katharoi which means "to cleanse". A brotherhood from the eleventh until the thirteenth century which guarded and protected the Christian ...