Pataren

Patarenism - an outer (not used in Bosnia) name of the Bosnian Church between the 11th and 15th centuries. There are several hypotheses about the genesis of patarenism (for example, one was supposed to be a sect of the sycophantic), though very little data was available on this subject. It is most likely developed from the monastic system of St. Basil (Holy Orthodox, but his nuns recognized the Roman sovereignty), distorted by the isolation from the Roman Church, the weakening of the Byzantine church and the powerful influence of the nearby heresy. Patarenism was a strong state religion, whose priests were mainly aristocrats. The activity of this heretical - in relation to Christianity - the movement was blunted by the prevailing atheists in Bosnia; The Pope Innocent III and Honorius III also proclaimed a crusade against the sect. In the thirteenth century, Catholicism was recognized as the second official and only Catholic religion in Bosnia, but the movement was active in the underground for another two centuries. Patriotism weakened the Dominican Inquisition, the appearance of the Franciscans (who remain after the Turkish invasion), the fact that in the mid-15th century the then-head of the Bosnian church swept back to Orthodoxy. The Turks finished, among others. arguing with the aristocracy that presided over the Bosnian church. The remains of the sect survived until the nineteenth century. The last of its followers is the Hefer family, who in 1866 converted to Islam. Bibliography

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