s the majority among you know already, people come from Perse, the Turks, are advanced to the Mediterranean, to the detriment of the grounds of the Christians.
Many fell under to their blows; many was reduced in slavery. These Turks destroy the churches; they ransack the kingdom of God. Therefore I you exhorte and I beg you - and it is not me which exhorte, it is the Lord himself -, you, the heralds of Christ, to persuades with all, some class of the company which they belong, horse pedestrians, rich person gold the poor, by your frequent preachings, to go to time to the help Christians and to push back these harmful people far from our territories. I say it to those which are here, I request it from those which miss: Christ orders it.
All those which will leave there and which will die on the way, that it is on the grounds or sea or which will lose the life as a combatant the pagan ones, the remission of their sins will be granted. And I grant it to those which will take part on a journey, under the terms of the authority which I hold of God.
Which shame, if people also scorned, therefore degraded, slaves, daemons, overrode the nation which is devoted to the worship of God and who honours himself with the name of Christian woman? Which reproaches the Lord himself would address to us if you do not find men who are worthy, like you name of Christians.
That they thus go to the combat against the inaccurate ones, these which up to now were devoted to private and abusive wars, with broad the dam of the faithful ones. What are they from now one knights of Christ, these which were only brigands? That they fight now, justifiably, counters the barbarians these which fought against to their brothers and to their parents! These are the eternal rewards that they will profit those which were made mercenaries for some poor wretches under. They will work for has double honor, these which were tired with the detriment of to their body and to their heart.
They were sad and poor here: they will be merry and rich over there. Here, they were the enemies of the Lord; over there, they will be his/her friends.
That those which will want to leave do not delay. That they rent their goods, get what will be necessary to their expenditure, and that they put under the control of God, at once that the winter and spring will have passed."
