02 December 2019
Word of the Day: Crusades
CRUSADES. The military expeditions undertaken by Christians in the eleventh
through fourteenth centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems. The
name comes from the cross that the crusaders bore on their clothing. There were
eight principal Crusades: the first (1096-99) through the eighth (1270). However,
the term is also applied in a wider sense to all expeditions blessed by the
Church against heretics and infidels. (Etym. French croisade; Spanish
cruzada; Latin cruciata, a marking with the cross.)
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