Quantum praedecessores and the Second Crusade
December 1, 1145
Pope Eugenius III, a Cistercian protege of Bernard, issued the bull calling for a new crusade to recover Edessa, promising indulgences identical to those of the First Crusade. Bernard of Clairvaux took up the commission and began preaching it across France and Germany the next year. At Vezelay, Bernard spoke so compellingly that the crowd tore his cloak to pieces for relics before he had finished speaking.
In context
Also in 1145 (4 other events on record)
- Almohads defeat the last Almoravids at Oran · Africa · War
- Weiqi flourishes in Southern Song court · East Asia · Culture
- Muslim mob sacks Cordoba · Africa · Disaster
- Bernard's De Consideratione begun · Europe · Religion
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.