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plenary indulgences from the church.
Pope Urban II promised forgive-
ness of all sins to whosoever took up
the cross and joined in the war. The
Roman Catholic Church desperately
wants to regain Jerusalem from the
Muslims to be their head quarter instead
of Rome. But they were unsuccessful.

Following the First Crusade there was an
intermittent 200-year struggle for control
of the Holy Land, with six more major
crusades and numerous minor ones. In
1291, the conflict ended in failure with
the fall of the last Christian stronghold
in the Holy Land at Acre, after which
Roman Catholic Europe mounted no
further coherent response in the east.

POPE URBAN II PREACHING

Why is it that the word CRUSADE AND
CRUSADERS in this time and age is a “TA-
BOO”? WHO IS THE ORIGINATOR AND
WHEN DID IT FIRST HAPPEN? Let us
delve in Church history to find the truth.

Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade
at the Council of Clermont “I, or rather
the Lord, beseech you as Christ’s heralds
to publish this everywhere and to persuade THE CRUSADERS
all people of whatever rank, foot-sol- Who were the victims of the Crusade?
diers and knights, poor and rich, to carry
aid promptly to those Christians and to ALBIGENSIANS: The first Crusade
destroy that vile race from the lands of intended to slay other Christians.
our friends. I say this to those who are The Albigensians...viewed themselves as
present, it meant also for those who are good Christians, but would not accept
absent. Moreover, Christ commands it.” Roman Catholic rule, and taxes,
and prohibition of birth control.
The Crusades were military campaigns
sanctioned by the Latin Roman Catholic BEGIN OF VIOLENCE: On command of
Church during the High Middle Ages Pope Innocent III (greatest single pre-Nazi
and Late Middle Ages. In 1095, Pope mass murderer) in 1209. Bezirs (today
Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade France) 7/22/1209 destroyed, all the
with the stated goal of restoring Chris- inhabitants were slaughtered. Victims
tian access to holy places in and near (including Catholics refusing to turn over
Jerusalem. Several hundred thousand Ro- their heretic neighbors and friends)
man Catholic Christians became crusaders 20,000-70,000.
by taking a public vow and receiving
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