What madness is this that takes hold of men? What deranged mind could have conceived such a project? For what purpose? An army of the poor to take the Holy Land? And why not a children’s crusade? A pilgrimage of innocent souls… for what? Did they really think they could liberate the holy places, reconquer them for Christendom? Or is there something else we’re missing?

The history we know is the history they wanted us to know. “They”. Who’re “they”? Or is it better not to ask certain questions? To live apart from the truth, when the truth is an unlivable place…