Recently, there was a “meme” posted on the Facebook Catholic Memes page regarding the Crusades (shown on the right), which mentioned the following unfortunate situation of the Crusaders: Be raided, enslaved, raped, murdered, and conquered for 500 years Your homelands suffer from destitute poverty because of the constant sea raids destroying naval trade and transport routes Byzantium is begging for help, southern France is easy picking for slavers, Spain is conquered and France is invaded, churches are burned and nuns are raped en masse in conquered cities, southern Italy and Sicily live in fear Call upon nobles, peasants, the poor
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