I remembered reading something about a small door that some churches in the South of France allowed access to some category of people. I also remember always seen in those parts, or rather in the Basque country, a strange font alongside the regular
... Who passed beneath that little door? Who scored drawing water from a holy water blessed confidential? As you know stratigraphic analysis of a memory is greatly facilitated by the network. Well, after only a few minutes of trying, in the fog here materalizzarsi furtive shapes who bow awkwardly to pass under those doors are too low to allow access to decent. Heads bowed under the shame a hat adorned with a ridiculous red tape to hide behind corners groped for themselves the horrible duck leg attached to the crimson robes: the Cagots enter the church in silence, they are men, women, children, have silently down the aisles. Many are forced to endure the scorn and offense in the name of unfounded discrimination that wants them descendants of the "C ani Goths" or by the Saracens, who were forced to announce their arrival by playing castanets castanets or as lepers, isolated from rest of the population that prevents them to the point of not having certain descriptions of their physical appearance: " They were tall, blond and blue-eyed ... but no they were small and dark .... "They had webbed hands and feet, gave off a stench unbearable ..."
In comparison to their treatment, the condition of the Jews was enviable. They lived on the margins of the community, they had a name, but only the first name followed by the word "Cagots, could marry only among themselves and when they died they were buried in the ground desecrated the doorways of their homes often had a carved head of a man , misshapen, the same one that was on their water bowls, but they were often wooden troughs or basins.
... Who passed beneath that little door? Who scored drawing water from a holy water blessed confidential? As you know stratigraphic analysis of a memory is greatly facilitated by the network. Well, after only a few minutes of trying, in the fog here materalizzarsi furtive shapes who bow awkwardly to pass under those doors are too low to allow access to decent. Heads bowed under the shame a hat adorned with a ridiculous red tape to hide behind corners groped for themselves the horrible duck leg attached to the crimson robes: the Cagots enter the church in silence, they are men, women, children, have silently down the aisles. Many are forced to endure the scorn and offense in the name of unfounded discrimination that wants them descendants of the "C ani Goths" or by the Saracens, who were forced to announce their arrival by playing castanets castanets or as lepers, isolated from rest of the population that prevents them to the point of not having certain descriptions of their physical appearance: " They were tall, blond and blue-eyed ... but no they were small and dark .... "They had webbed hands and feet, gave off a stench unbearable ..."
In comparison to their treatment, the condition of the Jews was enviable. They lived on the margins of the community, they had a name, but only the first name followed by the word "Cagots, could marry only among themselves and when they died they were buried in the ground desecrated the doorways of their homes often had a carved head of a man , misshapen, the same one that was on their water bowls, but they were often wooden troughs or basins.
Vere demons threshold, women were often Cagots midwives, while men working wood and stone. It is said fact that they were originally a tribe of nomadic Palestinians " masters of stone" , endowed with extraordinary powers, arrived in France as a result of the 9 Templars returning from the First Crusade led by Jean De Payns and then moved in Pyrenees under the protection of the Cathars.
A history of oppression and struggle, which since 1360, an era where there are already reports of the harassment they were subjected to climb to 1844, when, in spite of equality and dignity restored to them by the French Revolution, were still forced Cagots in Lower Navarre, to suffer humiliation and harassment. Many communities have tried to erase the shame of a past so dark, chipping away the effigies of holy water and lintels and murando, unnecessarily, the small ports that still whisper the story of ... Cagots
A history of oppression and struggle, which since 1360, an era where there are already reports of the harassment they were subjected to climb to 1844, when, in spite of equality and dignity restored to them by the French Revolution, were still forced Cagots in Lower Navarre, to suffer humiliation and harassment. Many communities have tried to erase the shame of a past so dark, chipping away the effigies of holy water and lintels and murando, unnecessarily, the small ports that still whisper the story of ... Cagots
(The site links and bibliography are extensive, I found it very interesting Ulysse Robert, Signs of infamy in the Middle Ages, edited by Silvana Arcuti, 2000 Rubbettino )
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