Unto Death [antikvár]

1It all began with outbreaks of discontent in the villages.Day by day bad omens began to appear in the poorer areas. An old farmer of Galland saw the form of a fiery chariot in the sky. In Sareaux an ignorant old woman croaked out oracles couched in the purest Latin. Rumors went around of a cross in an out-of-the-way church which burned for three days with a green flame and was not consumed. Our Lady appeared to a blind peasant beside a fountain one night, and when the priests fed him wine he described the vision in scriptural language.The faithful seemed to detect a kind of malicious joy fermenting throughout the winter in the dwellings of the accursed Jews.Strange things happened. Bands of dark wanderers, huge and black as bears, appeared simultaneously in several places. Even educated folk could sense at times a murmur gnawing inside them. There was no peace to be had.In Clermont, in the year of the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1095, Pope Urban II summoned