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St Bernard of Clairvaux in a stained-glass window.Image: culture · Europe
St Bernard preaches the Second Crusade at Vézelay
On Easter Sunday, in a field below the hilltop abbey of Vézelay in Burgundy, the abbot Bernard of Clairvaux called on a vast crowd to take up the cross after the fall of the crusader state of Edessa. King Louis VII and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine did so; legend says that when the cloth crosses ran out, Bernard tore up his own robe. The crusade that followed was a failure. The date is by the Julian calendar.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: St Bernard of Clairvaux ↗
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