December 1095 924 years ago, Pope Urban II issued his Letter of Instruction to the Crusaders, lamenting the "barbaric fury [which] has deplorably afflicted and laid waste the churches of God in the regions of the Orient."
November 27, 1095 Pope Urban II, at the Council of Clermont, lamenting the " barbaric fury [which] has deplorably afflicted and laid waste the churches of God in the regions of the Orient".
