February 1229 A.D. Council of Toulouse--"We prohibit laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament"
February 1229 A.D. Council of Toulouse-- "We prohibit laymen possessing copies of the Old and New Testament" Schaff, Philip. “ The Crusades against the Albigenses.” The History of the Christian Church, Vol. 5. N.d. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.xii.viii.html . Accessed 16 Dec 2014. The mediaeval measures against heretics assumed an organized form in the crusades against the Albigenses, before the institution of the Inquisition received its full development. To the papacy belongs the whole responsibility of these merciless wars. Toulouse paid a bitter penalty for being the head centre of heresy. 1096 1096 The Fourth Lateran spoke of the city as quae magis haeretica labe s corrupta . 1097 1097 Ep. II. 99; Migne, 214, 647. to it for Provence and Languedoc,—brought upon himself the full wrath and punishments of the Apostolic see for his unwillingness to join in the wars against his own subjects. A member of th...