Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile is his country, and his country exile.
Launched the First Crusade
Speech at the Council of Clermont, urging people to leave their homes for the Crusade.
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"The royal city, situated at the center of the world, is now held captive by His enemies, and is enslaved by peoples who do not know God."
Shocking"All who are going to go into battle should wear the sign of the cross on their garments."
Controversial"Deus vult! (God wills it!)"
Strange & Unusual"Therefore, I exhort and implore you—not I, but the Lord—to go as soldiers of Christ."
Controversial"For the land which you inhabit, shut in on all sides by the seas and surrounded by the mountain peaks, is too narrow for your large population."
Controversial