Holy cities

Many times when someone thinks about a crusade, they often think about the military expeditions that lead Europeans to want to regain back the Holy Land throughout many centuries. The start of the crusades began when the Christians wanted to earn the right to the Holy Land from the Muslims starting in the eleventh century. In addition, Pope Urban II wanted to unite the Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians which led him to issue an official crusade. This lead to bloody battles between the

of the Holy Lands in Jerusalem. This was a series of Holy wars that started in 1096 and lasted 200 years. They fought these wars because both the Muslims and the Christians wanted it for their control because they both saw it as a holy land for their religions. These bloody wars impacted the society at that time and the effects of the Crusades can still be seen in society today. The Crusades impacted people of that time. First of all, Pope Urban the II was telling the people that the Holy Lands that

St. Paul wasn’t always a holy man. He once was a man who persecuted Christians, but when he saw a vision of Jesus, his whole life turned around and made him one of the key contributors to the success of the Church. St. Paul represented the four marks of the church every day of his life after his sudden conversion. The main teachings he lived by, which are the four marks of the Church, were one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. As he followed these morals, he spread them all over the world. His preaching

Introduction The Crusades also known as the “Holy Wars, were a series of conflicts centered around the disputes of Christians wanting to conquer Muslims. These movements occurred in the Middle East and were centered in the Holy Land of Jerusalem. Most often, the crusades were petitioned by the church and lead by papacy. In total there were nine major crusades and an unnumbered amount of minor ones. Though the Crusades caused many deaths, the movements also had major impacts throughout

The Crusades were a holy war consisting of numerous conflicts that were authorized by the pope that were targeted against groups seen as adversaries to the Christian way of life. The Crusades lasted for approximately 196 years, and the battles went from 1095 to 1291. These conflicts were battles that Christians waged against Muslims to regain Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land from the Muslims. The initial motivation behind the crusades was to expel Muslims from the Holy Land and for the Christians

Middle Ages, Christian Crusades wrested control of the Palestine region from the Seljuk Turks, due to a series of military attacks that were made of Christian armies largely from Western Europe. The control that the Christian Crusades threw over the Holy Land was tenuous at best. What were the Crusades? Today, when ones answers this question, it is often the images of Crusades

A Crusade was used by the Europeans to reclaim the Holy Lands that were under the Muslims. They were considered Holy Wars that were brought on by the Popes. Talking about how the significance of the first three crusades led to the fall of Constantinople in the fourth crusade. We will have Jonathan Phillips making a guest appearance talking about his research in his book, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. Story Line Part 1: Start off the documentary with introducing the crusades.

constantly gets overlooked and seen as a mistake. Perhaps, however, it is not a mistake, one could make a case for the Crusaders that they were only trying to protect the relics and sites they saw as holy. One thing that many Christians do not understand, however, are the motives behind these "holy" wars. If one asks a Christian today who the Pope was during the time of the first crusade, the one that started them all, many would not be able to. Why is that? Most Christians today know about these

A great miracle has occurred, the Holy Spirit is among us. After the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit came to the Apostles. The church has begun on this day, rejoice! Pentecost, as this day is now known, is thus the church’s birthday. The events of this day are said to have been fantastic. It started off with all of the Apostles gathering in one place. All of a sudden, a sound came from Heaven, it filled the house where the people had gathered like a strong wind. Tongues of

starts in the year 1095 in Claremont, France. Pope Urban the second, gives an outdoor sermon, to rally the people of Europe to go and drive the Muslims out of the Holy Land. Sadly, he never heard the news of the capture of Jerusalem. He died on July 29 1099. The Crusaders marched from Spain, France, England and even Germany to the Holy City of Jerusalem. It took four years to get to Jerusalem from France. The crusaders met little resistance along the way. Godfrey de Bullion took 40,000 troops with