Career
Guilhabert withdrew to the Chateau de Montsegur and ministered from its safety. In 1222, Guilhabert escaped from Castelnaudary that was besieged by Amaury de Montford. During the meeting, it was decided to create the bishopric of Razes.
From 1229 to 1232 he lived at the Château du Bézu.
Constantly under the threat of persecution, he conducted his pastoral visits to the towns and chateaux of the Languedoc throughout the war. Guilhabert died in 1240, and was succeeded by Bartrand Marti as bishop.
Zoe Oldenbourg comments:
lieutenant is a little disconcerting to find history telling us so little about this man, and indeed about the other leaders of the movement. Yet Guilhabert himself seems to have been one of the greatest personalities of thirteenth-century France.
The history of the deeds and actions of these persecuted apostles may well have proved as rich in inspiration and instruction as that of a Francis of Assisi: They too were messengers of God"s love.
lieutenant is not immaterial to recall that these torches were put out forever, their faces obliterated and their example lost to all those whose lives they might have guided during the centuries that followed.
