King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
Luke of
Tuy yields
evidence on
cross-exam-
ination
of begin-
nings
amidst
religious
mysticism
names as Patarins. Catharists, and Albi-
genses. It is not impossible that the Order
of S. James, like some other pacifists,
barely escaped extermination by going into
the army.
There seems, upon examination, a fair
amount of evidence. Luke of Tuy when
he lived at Leon was a fine hunter-out of
Albigenses, and had his hands full: the
whole twenty-third volume of Espana
Sagrada, which deals with the early history
of the diocese, is full of Albigenses: some
are shepherds from the hills; some are clerks
in orders, of the city; they wrork miracles
of their own. Europe in these centuries
was full of this sort of feeling: on a map of
France in the twelfth century you could
spot such springs bursting up all over the
realm. How much of the Priscillian tem-
per had lasted or what like manifestations
followed I cannot say, for I have not access
to the long-out-of-print original Historia de
los Heterodoxes en Espana, but I know
that Rades y Andrada has a vague cer-
tainty that the beginnings of the Order of
Santiago were somewhere in Galicia. And
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