To enable themselves to lead normal lives, believers contracted with the perfect a convenenza, or agreement, providing for death - bed administration of spiritual baptism, or consolamentum.
विश्‍वासी ऐसे व्यक्‍ति थे जो वैरागी जीवन - शैली तो नहीं अपनाते थे, लेकिन कैथार शिक्षाओं को स्वीकार करते थे ।