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Gallery: Tours, Valley of the Loire, France / 01 - 04-09-2002
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Gallery: Tours, Valley of the Loire, France / 01 - 04-09-2002
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"Here, in a meadow
by the banks of the river Loire (left),
 Pope Urban II summoned a congregation in March 1096. Standing on an improvised platform he preached a long and solemn sermon, exhorting his hearers to repent and to go on the Crusade." |
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Quote: Steven Runciman
in "A History of the Crusades", Volume I, page 110
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