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             chronicler suggests that they killed as many as 100,000 Jews. (7) Beginning
             in 1320, a group of peasants in northern France, led by friars, set out for the
             Holy Land in what would become known as the Shepherd's Crusade.
             Pillaging as they went, they spilled Jewish blood throughout the province of
             Aquitaine. Hundreds were slaughtered at the village of Verdun-sur-Garonne.
             (8) One priest, Peter of Cluny, wrote, "God does not want them to be
             destroyed, but like Cain, who murdered his brother, they are to continue to
             exist under great suffering and in great shame so that life may be more bitter
             for them than death." (9) In 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council of Pope
             Innocent III institutionalized the Inquisition, issuing the following decree: In
             the countries where Christians do not distinguish themselves from Jews and
             Saracens by their garments, relations are maintained between Christians and
             Jews or Saracens, or vice versa. In order that such wickedness in the future
             be not excused by error, it is decreed that henceforth Jews of both sexes will
             be distinguished from other peoples by t
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