"We exhort and command you, brethren, to strive with all your might to drive out the Turks from the confines of the Christians, and to aid the Christians, who are now subjected to their yoke."

"Warriors who hear my voice, you who will go to war, rejoice, because you are taking up a legitimate war… Arm yourselves with the sword of the Maccabees and go to defend the house of Israel who is the …"

"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."

"They have destroyed the churches of God or have converted them to the rites of their own religion."

"They destroy the altars, after having defiled them with their uncleanness. They circumcise the Christians, and the blood of the circumcision they either spread upon the altars or pour into the vases o…"