History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . h had been recaptured by the Turks underSaladin, 11S7. The city of Acre was seized after one of the 47 CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE greatest sieges of Asia, but Jerusalem remained Turkish. (SeeScotts Talisman.) The Fourth Crusade started from Venice. It was meant forEgypt, but listened to an appeal from the deposed EasternEmperor at Constantinople for help, and turned aside to capturethat city, 1204, putting la
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . h had been recaptured by the Turks underSaladin, 11S7. The city of Acre was seized after one of the 47 CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE greatest sieges of Asia, but Jerusalem remained Turkish. (SeeScotts Talisman.) The Fourth Crusade started from Venice. It was meant forEgypt, but listened to an appeal from the deposed EasternEmperor at Constantinople for help, and turned aside to capturethat city, 1204, putting later a Latin prince in his seat. Althoughthe Greeks regained the throne in 1261 from the Latin rulers,the struggle so weakened them that Constantinople fell to theTurks in 1453. The Childrens Crusade (see Longfellows poem, TheChildrens Crusade), preached by a twelve-year-old boy,Stephan of France, started 1202. The German children thatreached Italy were sent home by the pope. Of the 30,000 Frenchchildren who gathered at Marseilles, 5,000 or more unsuspect-ingly accepted free passage for Palestine, and were taken toAlexandria, Egypt, and sold to the Mohammedans as NEBY MUSA PROCESSION A Mohammedan procession, bringirg a Hag from the Tomb of Moses to the Mosque,i Omar, Thursday of Passion Week, 1012. The wearers of white turbans have madethe pilgrimage to Mecca. They were the leaders in a scene of wildest fanaticism. Photo by author The Crusades which followed failed of their purpose, losingmore and more, until in 1291, Acre, the last city held in Falestine,was lost, and the Christian Knights driven to Malta and else-where, leaving the Crescent flag to wave more securely over the48 RAYMOND LULL sacred shrines than when first attacked two centuries before. Still these attempts were not without some good to checked for awhile the westward movement of the brought commerce to the Mediterranean cities, introducedmilder manners from the East, new learning
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