![]() ![]() If anyone seizes or robs monks, or clergymen, or nuns, or their servants, or pilgrims, or merchants, let him be anathema. If anyone seizes a bishop let him be treated as an outlaw. See that the tithes that belong to God are faithfully paid from all the produce of the land let them not be sold or withheld. Keep the church and the clergy in all its grades entirely free from the secular power. And be careful that simony does not take root among you, lest both those who buy and those who sell be beaten with the scourges of the Lord through narrow streets and driven into the place of destruction and confusion. You must especially let all matters that pertain to the church be controlled by the law of the church. If you wish to be the friends of God, gladly do the things which you know will please Him. But first correct yourselves, in order that, free from blame, you may be able to correct those who are subject to you. For how can the ignorant teach others? How can the licentious make others modest? And how can the impure make others pure? If anyone hates peace, how can he make others peaceable ? Or if anyone has soiled his hands with baseness, how can he cleanse the impurities of another? We read also that if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch. But the man who applies this salt should be prudent, provident, modest, learned, peaceable, watchful, pious, just, equitable, and pure. And because you cannot restore to Him His great loss, He will surely condemn you and drive you from His loving presence. For if He, shall find worms, that is, sins, In them, because you have been negligent in your duty, He will command them as worthless to be thrown into the abyss of unclean things. ![]() But if you fall short in your duty, how, it may be asked, can it be salted? O how great the need of salting! It is indeed necessary for you to correct with the salt of wisdom this foolish people which is so devoted to the pleasures of this -world, lest the Lord, when He may wish to speak to them, find them putrefied by their sins unsalted and stinking. For according to the gospel you are the salt of the earth. And after you have been bitterly scourged with remorse for your faults-, you will be fiercely overwhelmed in hell, the abode of death. For if through your carelessness or negligence a wolf carries away one of your sheep, you will surely lose the reward laid up for you with God. Do not go to sleep, but guard on all sides the flock committed to you. But be true shepherds, with your crooks always in your hands. You are called shepherds see that you do not act as hirelings. Happy indeed will you be if he finds you faithful in your stewardship. For God has put you as stewards over his family to minister to it. ![]() But if there is in you any deformity or crookedness contrary to God's law, with divine help I will do my best to remove it. I hoped to find you as faithful and as zealous in the service of God as I had supposed you to be. Most beloved brethren: Urged by necessity, I, Urban, by the permission of God chief bishop and prelate over the whole world, have come into these parts as an ambassador with a divine admonition to you, the servants of God. Does this amount to the export of violence? Note how the traditions of the peace and truce of God - aimed at bringing about peace in Christendom - ties in directly with the call for a Crusade. Here is the one by the chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. Urban II: Letter of Instruction, December 1095 Guibert de Nogent: Historia quae dicitur Gesta Dei per Francos Robert the Monk: Historia Hierosolymitana The acts of the council have not been preserved, but we have five accounts of the speech of Urban which were written by men who were present and heard him.įulcher of Chartres: Gesta Francorum Jerusalem Expugnantium At the council of Clermont, Urban addressed a great crowd and urged all to go to the aid of the Greeks and to recover Palestine from the rule of the Muslims. In 1094 or 1095, Alexios I Komnenos, the Byzantine emperor, sent to the pope, Urban II, and asked for aid from the west against the Seljuq Turks, who taken nearly all of Asia Minor from him. Urban II (1088-1099): Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095, Five versions of the Speech.
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