At Rome at Saint Peter’s, Blessed Urban II, pope, who safeguarded the liberty of the Church against the encroachments of the laity, fought against simoniacs and corrupt clerics, and at the Council of Clermont exhorted Christian soldiers that, signed with the cross, they should set free their brethren oppressed by the infidels and the Sepulchre of the Lord.
July 29th
Blessed Urban II
Latin Original
Rome apud sanctum Petrum, beáti Urbáni papae Secündi, qui libertátem Ecclesiae& contra laicórum invasiónes tüitus est, advérsus simoníacos et pravos cléricos pugnávit et in Concílio Claromontáno míáílites christiános adhortátus est, ut cruce signáti fratres ab infidélibus oppréssos et sepülcrum Dómini liberárent.