Children's Crusade

Japanese: 少年十字軍 - しょうねんじゅうじぐん（英語表記）Children's Crusade

In the spring of 1212, near Cologne, Germany, a young boy named Nicholas, who claimed to have been "inspired by an angel," led several thousand peasants and herdsmen on a march to Italy, unarmed, with the plan of "crossing the sea on foot," with the goal of liberating Jerusalem. In the summer of the same year, in the village of Croix (south of Chartres), in France, a shepherd boy named Etienne, who claimed to have "met Christ in pilgrimage attire and been entrusted with a letter for the King of France," gathered around "30,000 boys and girls" who endured scorching heat and hunger to march to Marseilles on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This event was combined with other events to be passed down by chroniclers about half a century later as a crusade performed only by innocent minors who believed in God's help.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1212年春，ドイツのケルン付近で〈天使から霊感をうけた〉と称する少年ニコラスが数千人の農民や牧夫たちを引き連れ，無装備のまま〈歩いて海を渡る〉計画のもとに，エルサレム解放を目的としてイタリアまで行進した事件，また同じ年の夏フランスのクロア村(シャルトル南方)で〈巡礼姿のキリストに出会い，フランス王あての手紙を託された〉と自称する牧童エティエンヌのまわりに集まった〈3万人の少年少女たち〉が，エルサレム巡礼を目的としマルセイユまで炎暑と飢餓に耐えて行進したできごとを総合し，約半世紀後の年代記作者が神助を信じた純真な未成年者のみによる十字軍として語り伝えたもの。

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