To: Farmboy who wrote (88882 ) 6/26/2012 5:59:10 PM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) | Respond to The first time I heard that phrase, Gee, seems like it may have been a John Wayne movie . en.wikipedia.org sortie but was quickly defeated, then pursued by the crusaders back through the gates and into the city. Arnaud, the Cistercian abbot-commander, is supposed to have been asked how to tell Cathars from Catholics . His reply , recalled by Caesar of Heisterbach , a fellow Cistercian , thirty years later was "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." —"Kill them all, the Lord will recognise His own." [30] [31] The doors of the church of St Mary Magdalene were broken down and the refugees dragged out and slaughtered. Reportedly, 7,000 people died there. Elsewhere in the town many more thousands were mutilated and killed. Prisoners were blinded, dragged behind horses, and used for target practice. [32] What remained of the city was razed by fire. Arnaud wrote to Pope Innocent III , "Today your Holiness, twenty thousand heretics were put to the sword, regardless of rank, age, or sex." [33] [34] The permanent population of Béziers at that time was then probably no more than 5,000, but local refugees seeking shelter within the city walls could conceivably have increased the number to 20,000."en.wikipedia.org was it as a military member or military contractor, perhaps, who lived on 'base'? Just wondering.
