Welcome to Madison County, Ohio. Your source for Official Madison County Government Information. Named after James Madison, 4th President of the United States, Madison County is located in central Ohio between Columbus and Springfield. Primarily an agricultural area, 88% of the land consist of farms. Madison County ranks fourth in both soybean and corn production throughout the state of Ohio.
The Inquisition is a group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. It started in 12th-century France to combat religious sectarianism, in particular the Cathars and the Waldensians.
How did inquisitions come to be used in dealing with cases of heresy? The medieval inquisition started life in a series of papal bulls on heresy, in particular Lucius IIIâs Ad abolendum of 1184 and Innocent IIIâs Cum ex officii nostri of 1207. These defined the crime of heresy, imparted the duty of the church to root it out and equated it with treason against the state.