The Bogomils were without doubt the connecting
link between the so-called heretical sects of
the East and those of the West.
They were, moreover, the most activ~ agents in
disseminating such teachings in Russia and among
all the nations of Europe.
They may have found in some places a soil already
prepared by more ancient tenets which had been
preserved in spite of the persecution of the
official Church, and handed down from the period
of primitive Christianity.
In the 12th and 13th centuries the Bogomils were
already known in the West as Bulgari.
In 1207 the Bulgarorum heresis is mentioned.
In 1223 the Albigenses are declared to be the
local Bougres, and at the same period mention is
made of the Pope of the Albigenses who resided
within the confines of Bulgaria.
The Cathars and Patarenes, the Waldenses,
the Anabaptists, and in Russia the Strigolniki,
Molokani and Dukhobortsi, have all at different
times been either identified with the Bogomils
or closely connected with them.

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