Therefore, I exhort and implore you—not I, but the Lord—to go as soldiers of Christ.
Launched the First Crusade
Therefore, I exhort and implore you—not I, but the Lord—to go as soldiers of Christ.
Launched the First Crusade
Speech at the Council of Clermont, as recorded by Fulcher of Chartres
1095
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