It’s time to show the evidence and the historical facts about the circumstances which led to the Crusades and the mobilization of the Christian people to reclaim Christendom.
We have heard enough from the secular humanist and the anti-Christian sources against the validity of the military endeavors to recapture Jerusalem and Constantinople from Muslim occupation. The popular, mainline opinion today is that it was the unjust actions of the Christians which ought to be condemned, rather than the violence and the usurpation of Islamic invaders against Christian people and their land.
While we are aware that not everything can be justified with the certain actions by particular and individual Christian forces, the whole Crusade agenda and its spirit to take back what rightfully belongs to the Christian people is a good and noble cause without blame. History testifies to the facts of spiritual motivation, rather than of greed or power.
At the end of the fourteenth century, an extraordinary personage appeared from the depths of Spain. His name was Vincent Ferrer. A prophet and wonder-worker since his youth, he grew up amidst universal astonishment. The Spirit of God lay upon him, took possession of his heart, and inflamed him with a zeal unknown since St. Paul. It ruled his body, which he sustained, despite his extreme weakness, amidst the most crushing labors, and the harshest austerities. The power to work miracles was granted him– in short, he uttered the most prodigiously powerful words that mankind had ever heard since St. Paul.