The Holy War is Far from Over!

“Cities in the Holy Land are now come under the base and godless rule of Saracens – a people who have subjected the blessed believers of the Church, our brothers in blood, faithful sons of the same Christ, to unspeakable degradation and servitude.” These words from the inflammatory speech by Pope Urban II resounded throughout the market places in Christian cities across the known world after being delivered on November 27th, 1095. The first Crusades followed.