Terra Sancta Christi

Pope Innocent IV

Terra Sancti Christi is a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent IV on 23 January 1245 calling for a crusade to the Holy Land.[1][2] In December 1244 Louis IX of France had declared his intention to go on a crusade to the Holy Land, and in February Innocent ordered the Franciscans to preach in favour of it.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, The Popes and the Baltic Crusades: 1147–1254 (Brill, 2007), p. 228.
  2. ^ Rudolf Hiestand, 'The Military Orders and Papal Crusading Propaganda', in Victor Mallia-Milanes, The Military Orders Volume III: History and Heritage (London: Routledge, 2017), p. 155.


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