The Abbot of Citeaux, Arnaud Amalric and the Crusader army on the outskirts of Beziers before the Massacre at Beziers, 22 July 1209, during The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade. Amalric, when asked how to distinguish Cathars from Catholics, responded, "Kill them all! God will know his own." From Histoire de France, published 1855.

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