The crusaders approached Beziers.
The papal legate Arnaud Amalric lips are tightly pressed, there is a deep vertical wrinkle on a narrow forehead, and close-set eyes sparkle with fury.
The Albigensians, those lousy dogs who disdained the commandments of the Savior and sold church positions for money, betrayed Christ as Judas did!
He remembered how, together with the Reverend Pierre de Castelnau, they had come to Toulouse to excommunicate the apostate Raymond VI and how he humiliatingly asked for forgiveness. But the two-faced jackal ordered his henchmen to slaughter the Holy Father! He has no forgiveness! All of them!
"I'll burn everyone, everyone!" He did not notice how he said the last words aloud.
"Reverend, will you order to surround the castle and begin the siege?" Simon de Montfort bowed his head respectfully to his horse's mane.
"No, tomorrow morning, all troops will storm the castle! Spare no one!"
"But, reverend, how can we distinguish between righteous Catholics and heretics?"
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius."
(Latin for "Kill them all. The Lord knows those that are his own")
