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Why was Pope Urban ll important?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019
Roman Catholic AnswerPope Urban II started one of the first crusades to liberate the Holy Land. One of the reasons he is so well know now is that all of the reports about his crusade, all of which were written much later, had him saying that the crusaders should destroy the "vile race" that was occupying the Holy Land. There is no actual evidence that he ever said such things. See the accompanying article below:
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