Petrobrusian
/ˌpɛtrə(ʊ)ˈbruːsɪən/Church History
noun
A follower of the radical heretical preacher Pierre de Bruys, active in southern France early in the 12th cent., who rejected infant baptism, the mass, prayers for the dead, and other externals of worship.
- The Petrobrusians do not appear to have continued as a well-defined group after Pierre's death; they were succeeded in the second half of the 12th cent. by dualist movements such as Catharism, which (although they were not dualists themselves) their beliefs and practices anticipated in some respects..
Origin
Mid 16th century. From post-classical Latin Petrobrusiani, plural from Petrus Brusianus, the name in Latin of Pierre de Bruys from Petrus + Brusianus from Brusium, the name in Latin of Bruys (now Bruis), a town in south-eastern France + -anus.