Crusade Pictures from a 1963 National Geographic Magazine (Vanity)

National Geographic Magazine | December, 1963 | Franc Shor

[Theoden]

I found one of my dad's old National Geographic magazines, and it had some neat pictures on the crusades that I thought I would share.

Peter Bartholomew, a servent in the Crusader army, told the nobles that St. Andrew had revealed to him the hiding place of the lance that pierced Christ's side at the Crucifiction. Here, after a search beneath the Church of St. Peter, Crusaders gasp as Bartholomew uncovers a corroded lance head. Hope rekindled, the knights broke the Muslim siege the next day.

Braving a Rain of Arrows, Europeans Route the Turks on the Plains of Antioch.

Crusaders Marching Around the Holy City of Jerusalem.

Victorious Crusaders fall to their knees in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

[Aquinasfan]

Hitler may have just about been "the devil incarnate", but he sure did go for those Christian legends and imagery.

He was heavily into the occult, as you probably know.

[Guenevere]

Thank-you!

[Theoden]

Heh. I was born in the mid 80's, so I'm in the "evil Christian-Crusader-Zionist-Pig" era ;^)

But seriously, you are right about not hearing much on the crusades being bad recently. There's been a lot of books that I think helped to dispel a lot of the myths, and to put the crimes that were committed into it's historical context.

A great book that I read a few months ago was "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades".

[Theoden]

Your welcome!