| Author Quoted | Zoe Oldenbourg |
| Title Quoted | Massacre at Monsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/10/18 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1961 |
| Quotation | Have you read any of Zoe Oldenbourg's books about the Albigensians? Very moving and disturbing. She is right in many ways, yet you cannot call the Cathars "perfect Christians." I do not hesitate to add that the Inquisition is certainly no more perfectly Christian than the Cathars"”probably a lot less!! |
| Journal | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 363 |
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