Late Medieval Period
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"Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as god.
For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them.
For, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and conquered the territory of [the Greek Empire] as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean...
On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to... persuade all people of whatever rank, foot soldiers and knights, poor and rich
to carry aid promptly to those Christians and destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends... Moreover, Christ commands it."
- Pope Urban
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