n II delivered to clergy and lay folk who had gathered in a field in Clermont, central France. His topic: an appeal for help that he had received from the Byzantine Emperor, Alexius I Comnenius (Dr. Tom J. Rees).
             "For your brethen who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which gas often been promised them. For most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania."
             " All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of god with which I am invested." (Dr. Tom J. Rees)
             The appeal for soldiers to fight for Jerusalem was very successful. From all over Europe great nobles, clergy and peasants began preparing for the trip. Most of the people who were going were going for the most important reason, a religious reason. They thought that God had wanted them to.
             The official crusading armies did not head of for the long j
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