Let our lives be stronger than death to fight against the enemies of the Christian people.” Let the fire of our repentance raise up the Holy War and the love of our brethren lead us into combat. “We are disgraced, sons and brothers, who live in these days of calamities! Can we look at the world in this century reproved by Heaven to witness the desolation of the Holy City and remain in peace while it is so oppressed? Is it not preferable to die in war rather than suffer any longer so horrible a spectacle? Let us all weep for our faults that raise the divine ire, yes, let us weep… But let not our tears be like the seed thrown into the sand. That perverse nation profanes the hospices … The temple of the Lord is treated like a criminal and the ornaments of the sanctuary are robbed. They run over the weak and the elderly, they seize the children from their mothers so that they might forget, among the barbarians, the name of God. The race of the elect suffers outrageous persecutions, and the impious race of the Saracens respects neither the virgins of the Lord nor the colleges of priests. “The people worthy of glory, the people blessed by God Our Lord, moan and fall under the weight of these outrages and most shameful humiliations. If the one true God does not contain their triumphant march, arming their children, what nation, what kingdom will be able to close the doors of the West to them? The barbarous hordes of Turks pitch their standards at the very borders of Hellespoint, where they threaten all the Christian nations. The cities of Antioch, Ephesus and Nicaea already are taken by the Musselmen. "A victorious impiety has suffused the most fertile lands of Asia in darkness. Pope Urban II arriving and preaching at the Clermont Council And how the miraculous Sepulcher where death could not guard its Prisoner, the Sepulcher which is the source of future life and, above all, where the Sun of the Resurrection rose, was befouled by those who will not rise again except to serve as straw for the eternal fire. It described how the city of the King of Kings, which transmitted the pure Faith to all the other cities, was obliged to pay service to pagan superstitions. It described to you the lamentable situation of Jerusalem and the people of God. "We have heard the message of the Christians of the East. The Pope, followed by his Cardinals, processed in and the meeting began.Īfter Peter the Hermit, Urban II rose to speak, saying these moving and memorable words: On the day of Pope Urban’s speech, the Council convened in the large square outside the eastern gate of Clermont where the papal throne was set up in order to accommodate the immense crowd. But all these decrees – even the excommunication of Philip I, the King of France, for adultery - did not manage to deviate the general attention from the point that was considered the most important, which was the captivity of Jerusalem and the abuses taking place there. The Council passed numerous decrees for ecclesiastical discipline and the reform of the Church, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage. The Truce of God was proclaimed at the same time as the War of God. The most famous Saints and Doctors honored it with their presence and illuminated it with their counsels. Responding to the call were more than 200 Archbishops and Bishops, 4,000 ecclesiastics and 30,000 laymen. Moved by the same spirit as his predecessor, Blessed Urban II resolved to convoke the Council of Clermont in November of 1095 in southern France, the heart of the warrior nation which for many centuries had set the tonus for Europe.
The Pope convokes the Council of Clermont Gregory VII, however, was not able to realize his plan due to internal problems in Europe.
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He said he would like to risk his own life in order to free the Holy Places. Gregory VII spoke how the sufferings of the Catholics in the East had touched him to the point that he desired death. Gregory VII had already exhorted the faithful to take up arms against the Muslims, he himself promising to lead them to Asia. With the aim of extending the empire of the Catholic Religion and the power of the Holy See in the East, Pope St.
Pope Urban II Calls for the First Crusade by Hugh O'Reilly
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