In the
history of the Catholic Church, a crusade indulgence was any
indulgence—remission from the penalties imposed by
penance
Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of Repentance (theology), repentance for Christian views on sin, sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic Church, Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox s ...
—granted to a person who participated in an ecclesiastically sanctioned
crusade
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were i ...
. It had its origins in the
Council of Clermont that closed on 27 November 1095. According to
Lambert of Arras
Lambert may refer to
People
*Lambert (name), a given name and surname
* Lambert, Bishop of Ostia (c. 1036–1130), became Pope Honorius II
*Lambert, Margrave of Tuscany ( fl. 929–931), also count and duke of Lucca
*Lambert (pianist), stage-name ...
, who was present, the council decreed that, "Whoever for devotion alone, not to gain honour or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God can substitute this journey for all penance." This marked the start of the
First Crusade. Later popes and councils often invoked "the same remission as instituted by
Pope Urban Pope Urban may refer to one of several popes of the Catholic denomination:
*Pope Urban I, pope c. 222–230, a Saint
*Pope Urban II, pope 1088–1099, the Blessed Pope Urban
*Pope Urban III, pope 1185–1187
*Pope Urban IV, pope 1261–1264
*Pope U ...
at the council at Clermont." The connection to the liberation of Jerusalem was later weakened and the same or similar indulgence offered to participants in the
Northern Crusades and the
Albigensian Crusade
The Albigensian Crusade or the Cathar Crusade (; 1209–1229) was a military and ideological campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, southern France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown ...
.
See also
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Crusade bull
Notes
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*{{cite journal , last=Chevedden , first=Paul E. , title=Canon 2 of the Council of Clermont (1095) and the Crusade Indulgence , journal=Annuarium historiae conciliorum , volume=37 , issue=2 , year=2005 , pages=253–322
Crusades
Catholic moral theology