. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. of the crusaders who rodeup to the Mosque of Omar were knee-deep in the stream of were seized by their feet and dashed against the walls orwhirled over the battlements, while the Jews were all burned alivein their synagogue. In the midst of these horrors Godfrey enteredthe Church of the Sepulcher, clothed in a robe of pure white, butbarefooted as well as bareheaded, and knelt at the tomb to offer histhanksgiving for the divine goodness which had suffered them torealize the yearning of their hearts.
. The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 1898. of the crusaders who rodeup to the Mosque of Omar were knee-deep in the stream of were seized by their feet and dashed against the walls orwhirled over the battlements, while the Jews were all burned alivein their synagogue. In the midst of these horrors Godfrey enteredthe Church of the Sepulcher, clothed in a robe of pure white, butbarefooted as well as bareheaded, and knelt at the tomb to offer histhanksgiving for the divine goodness which had suffered them torealize the yearning of their hearts. In the profound enthusiasmand devotion of the moment his followers beheld the dead take partin the solemn ritual, and heard the voice of Adhemar rejoicing inthe prayers and resolutions of penitence offered by the prostratewarriors of the cross. Among the living, too, there were those whocalled forth the deepest gratitude; and the vast throng fell at thefeet of the hermit Peter, who thus saw the consummation of theenterprise which was mainly his work, and of whom after the com-. (211) 212 GREAT BATTLES OF ALL NATIONS pletion of his task we hear no more. On the next day the horrorsof that which had preceded it were deliberately repeated on a largerscale. Tancred had given a guarantee of safety to three hundredcaptives. In spite of his indignant protests these were all broughtout and killed; and a massacre followed in which the bodies ofmen, women, and children were hacked and hewn until theirfragments lay tossed together in heaps. The work of slaughterended, the streets of the city were washed by Saracen ended the first and the most important of the crusades. Itshistory shows us clearly the nature of these religious wars and themode in which they were carried on. Those which follow may bemore briefly noticed, as they tend generally to assume more andmore of a political character. The first crusade had to all appear-ance fully attained its object. Godfrey was really
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