Pope Urban II — "Gird yourselves, everyone of you, I say, and be valiant sons; for it is better f…"

Gird yourselves, everyone of you, I say, and be valiant sons; for it is better for you to die in battle than to behold, the sorrows of your race and of your holy places. Let neither property nor the alluring charms of your wives entice you frol going; nor let the trials that are to be borne so deter you that you remain here.
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Speech at the Council of Clermont, exhorting men to join the Crusade.

Date: 1095

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