Bernard preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay
March 31, 1146
On Easter Sunday, standing on a wooden platform in a field below the basilica because the church could not hold the crowd, Bernard of Clairvaux preached the crusade. Louis VII took the cross on the spot. Bernard cut up his own habit into cloth crosses when the pre-made supply ran out.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.