Terra Sancta Christi Explained

Terra Sancti Christi is a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent IV on 23 January 1245 calling for a crusade to the Holy Land.^{[1] [2]} In December 1244 Louis IX of France had declared his intention to go on a crusade to the Holy Land, and in February Innocent ordered the Franciscans to preach in favour of it.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, The Popes and the Baltic Crusades: 1147–1254 (Brill, 2007), p. 228.
2. Rudolf Hiestand, 'The Military Orders and Papal Crusading Propaganda', in Victor Mallia-Milanes, The Military Orders Volume III: History and Heritage (London: Routledge, 2017), p. 155.