CHRISTIAN CAVALIERS CAPTIVE AT CAIRO
Book XIV.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

Illus -70 Tissue

CHRISTIAN CAVALIERS CAPTIVE AT CAIRO

The knights and barons were still ignorant of the conclusion of the treaty, and, daily encouraged by the priests to maintain their religion and their courage, they were revolving in their minds their custonary melancholy reflections, when they saw an old Saracen enter their pavilion. His venerable figure and the gravity of his carriage inspired respect. His train, composed of men-at-arms, inspired fear. The old man, without any preliminary discourse, asked the prisoners, by means of an interpreter, if it was true that they believed in a God, born of a woman, crucified for the salvation of the human race, resuscitated the htird day ? All having answered at once that that was their belief; "In that case," added he, "congratulate yourselves at suffering for your God ; you are yet far from having suffered as much for him as he suffered for you. Place your hopes in him, and if he has been able to recall himself to life, he will not want power to put an end to the evils that afflict you now." - Book XIV

*Notes; page 145 12,000 Christian captives Louis sends ransom

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