also discussed her nonbelief in the existence of God with her husband and aunt. To her husband she said: "Sir, how is it possible that I cannot believe in our Lord?" And she asked her aunt: “Aunt, what might I do to believe in God, and to believe that the body of Christ is really on the altar?” Another woman, Guillemette of Ornolac, was brought in for interrogation because she doubted the existence of the soul. She expressed the opinion that what is referred to as the “soul” is nothing more than blood and that death is final. When Fournier asked her if anyone had taught her these ideas, she answered: “No, I thought it over and believed it myself.” Both women were sentenced to wear a double yellow cross on their backs for the rest of their lives. An even more outspoken villager who was called in for questioning by Fournier, was Raimond de l’Aire. Witnesses had heard him say that "God never made the world, that the world had always existed, that the resurrection was a myth, that the Eucharist was nothing more than bread and wine, that the rituals of the priests meant nothing, and that he gave to the poor not for his soul but so that others would see him as a good man." A witness told Fournier that Raimond deserved to be put to death for saying that Christ was not created through divine intervention, but "just through screwing, like everybody else.". Fournier's records however do not mention whether or not Raimond was sentenced to die. Fournier becomes Pope After his time in Pamiers, Fournier was rapidly promoted through the ranks of the church eventually rising to Pope as Benedict XII in 1334. The register followed him and was placed in the Vatican Library where it remains to this day. Complete editions of it have been recently published in Latin and in French, but only portions have been translated into English. References Sources Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie: Montaillou, village occitan, 1975, (English), (French) Jacques Fournier: De statu animarum ante generale judicium; De visione Dei – Scan of Vat. lat. 4006 (this is not the Fournier register, but is an original of some of his sermons) 14th century in France History of Catholicism in France Inquisition Manuscripts of the Vatican Library Freethought