“ Let those of you, however, who are strong, and worthy to wage war, endowed no less with the shield of faith and the armour of justice than with material arms, take up the struggle and labour of this pilgrimage, which is both pious and necessary, and defend with strong virtue those places in which the Redeemer of mankind desired to be born for us, and suffered a temporal death, so that he may not sustain the defeat of Christianity in those places in our own time. ”
Alexander III
Biographical details
Alexander III published works such as Cor nostrum and Privilege of Pope Alexander III to Henry II. These writings evoke Christian, sadness and invasion.
Quotes by Alexander III
“ For because Christ sustained much disgrace, and finally the yoke of the cross, for our salvation, so that he might offer us to God, we who are mortified in the flesh, but living in the spirit, thus it is quite expedient for the salvation of the faithful that we expose our body to dangers and labours for the same reason, so that we do not seem to have forgotten the price of the blood which he spilled for us. ”
“ Indeed it has been crushed by the invasion of the infidels, which we mention with sadness, and has now become so devoid of the power of strong men and the counsel of honest men, that unless it obtains the quick and powerful support of the Christian kings and princes of the world, we fear, God forbid, for its imminent desolation, in disgrace of God, and in contempt of the Christian faith. ”
