The French fortress of a celibate sect

Montségur Castle, perched high in the Pyrenees, became the last refuge of the Cathars, a medieval dualist sect which rejected meat and procreative sex and believed in a spiritual love detached from the material world. Persecuted as heretics by the Catholic Church, their beliefs and the myths surrounding Montségur continue to shape Western imagination and thought.

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