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PATARENES, or PATARELLI

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATARENES, or PATARELLI , a name apparently first used in See also:Milan about 1058 to denote the extreme opponents of clerical marriages. The party was so called because, under the See also:leader-See also:ship of Arialdus, a See also:deacon of Milan, its members used to assemble in the Pataria or ragmen's See also:quarter of that See also:city (pates being a provincial word for a rag). In the 13th See also:century the name was appropriated by the Cathari, who said it came from pati (to suffer), because they endured hardship for their faith.

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