Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile is his country, and his country exile.

Launching the First Crusade

at the Council of Clermont in 1095; William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum


Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile...

Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile...

Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile...

Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile...