The Mistery of Belicena Villca through an imperial law which considered the unofficial Cults " crime of lese majesty ", that is , liable to the death penalty : in this case the law would apply to the repression of heresy . In 1231 , despite the fact that they were already functioning , the Pope Gregory IX institutes the " special courts of the Inquisition " and entrusts their office to the Orders of Saint Dominic and Saint Francis , the latter at the request of Friar Elijah , a secret agent of Frederick II in the Franciscan Order , who would be a minister general from 1232 to 1239 , and who in the end , discovered by the Golen , would openly go over to the Ghibelline side . However , in a short time only the Dominicans would be in charge of the Inquisition .
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Two facts need to be made clear when evaluating the step taken by the Order of Saint Dominic when accepting the responsibility of the Inquisition . One is that this represented the lesser evil for the Cathars , since the repression executed directly by the Golen would have been terribly more effective , as it was verified in Beziers , and that this would achieve , at least , sabotaging the search for the Gral and delaying the fall of Montsegur , an objective , to a large extent , accomplished . And the other fact is that the Lords of Tharsis were perfectly aware that the Order would be infiltrated by the Golen and that these
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