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Re: crusade quote


Poster: Erik Dutton <edutton@worldnet.att.net>

Jessica Rechtschaffer wrote:
> Quoting from memory, the remark, "Kill them all, God will know his own"
> was uttered during the Albigensian Crusade at the city of Beziers in
> southern France.
> ... 
> Joseph Strayer is a far more reliable source.

Strayer, in _The Albigensian Crusades_, states flatly that the "kill
them all" quote is apocryphal.

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