Ironically, Jerusalem held dubious strategic value. Far from the Mediterranean coast, it was off the trade routes and ringed by difficult-to-cross ... crusaders had established themselves in the ...

Even after the end of the Crusader era, pilgrims carried the image of the Jerusalem Cross, connecting their own faith journeys to the passion of Our Lord and the desire to see the Holy City.

Fifty years after the First Crusade captured the city, the Kingdom of Jerusalem ... wounds of Christ and allude to the Jerusalem Cross, the emblem of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

After the end of the crusader era, pilgrims carried an image of the Jerusalem Cross as they made the journey to the City of David to walk in the footsteps of Jesus. Pilgrims often get a tattoo of ...

A Jerusalem cross flag is seen flying alongside two flags of Vatican City as a Palestinian woman ... religious organizations descended from the crusader orders of knighthood or people seeking ...

Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that ... Studies at Smith College and author of Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology Tom Madden, Professor of History and ...

The crescent on the top of the dome was replaced with a cross, and when the city was ... they uncovered a three-storey house built in the Crusader period - a unique find for the history of the city of ...

The moat is believed to have kept the First Crusaders from breaching the city ... at the walls of Jerusalem in June 1099. It took the fighters approximately five weeks to cross the moat after ...

The Jerusalem Cross and "Deus Vult" motto are frequently used together by religious organizations descended from the crusader ...