A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Caputiati


CAPUTIATI, a sect in the twelfth century; so called from wearing a singular kind of cap with a leaden image of the Virgin Mary. They declared publicly, that their purpose was to level all distinctions among mankind, and to restore their natural equality.[1]


Original footnotes edit

  1. Mosheim, vol. ii. p. 456, 457