
06-24-2004, 03:16 PM
[quote:90611]Significantly, it was when he was reciting these words that the crowd suddenly roared back at him: "God wills it!" "Dieu li volt! cried the northerners, and the southerners cried, "Diex le volt!" It was at that very moment that the Crusade came into existence.
"Yes, indeed," Urban II answeered. "Yes, it is the will of God. You today see the accomplishment of the word of our Saviour, who promised to be in the midst of the faithful, when assembled in his name; it is He who dictated to you the words that I have heard. Let them be your war cry, and let them announce everywhere the presence of the God of armies!"[/quote:90611]
1998,
The Crusades, The Voice From The Tomb, In the Fields of Clermont. p.35, Robert Payne. Wordsworth Military Library.
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