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The essential rite of the consolamentum was the imposition of hands.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Here below, it is not the Catholic sacraments but the peculiar ceremony of the Albigenses known as the consolamentum, or "consolation," that purifies the soul from all sin and ensures its immediate return to heaven.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The Albigenses opposed infant baptism on the grounds that all humans, being part of the material world, were inherently evil until they willingly and knowingly rejected this world and took up the consolamentum, a Cathar ritual of initiation comparable to baptism and ordination.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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The faithful, who were not capable of such demands, were permitted the ordinary indulgences, provided they received, before death, special absolution (the consolamentum).
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968
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The "perfect" were those who had submitted to the initiation-rite (consolamentum).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The only bond that attached the "believers" to Albigensianism was the promise to receive the consolamentum before death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The consolamentum, or ceremony of initiation, was a sort of spiritual baptism, analogous in rite and equivalent in significance to several of the Catholic sacraments (Baptism, Penance, Order).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The adepts, properly so called, were initiated by the ceremony of the _consolamentum_ or imposition of hands, which induced the descent upon them of the Consoling Spirit.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Coustaussa, who had separated from her husband, went to Saverdum to receive the _consolamentum_.
The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church 1888
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About the middle of the thirteenth century, when the Cathari began to give the consolamentum to infants, they were often cruel enough to make them undergo the _endura_.
The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church 1888
mount_weary commented on the word consolamentum
A sacrament performed by the Cathar Perfects on the dying (and also on those wishing to live as Parfaits), which offered spiritual regeneration (thereby freeing them from the cycle of rebirth, sending them directly to God), and absolution from sin.
November 12, 2015