The Perfects

The Perfects, or bons hommes, were the Cathar elite, admitted to the consolamentum, the movement's one sacrament, only after a period of probation. They gave up property, sex, oaths and meat, and travelled as preachers.

Ordinary believers often put off the rite until they were dying. The Inquisition made the Perfects its chief quarry in Languedoc after the Albigensian Crusade.