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like the first; and St. Bernard was blamed forsending the Christians to die in the East as ifEurope could not afford them graves. Yet had hespoken with the eloquence of a mighty orator andthe unction of a father of the Church of God, andhe rejoiced that the public anger should rise ratheragainst him—poor buckler of the Lord—than beguilty of disrespect to the Lord himself. Norshould those w-ho (borrowing the words of thepious historian of the crusades) 1 speak of the11 unfortunate eloquence of St. Bernard ,” do him theinjustice of not avowing that it also impeded theusual enormity of that age, a massacre of theJews.

Not long after that retreat from Damascus manyHospitallers fell in a great battle on the upperOrontes; when the Prince of Antioch was slain 2and his head sent to Bagdad. 3 Several of the bestseaport s of his principality were taken by Noureddin.Young Joscelin, after various attempts to retakeEdessa, was made prisoner and led captive to Aleppoand died there in misery and despair (partly it issaid, from the consequence of his own vices),chained in a dungeon. It was early in 1148.What remained alive of Latin inhabitants, not of

1 Michaud: Hist., ii. 132. 2 Arab. Chron., 98.

3 Michaud : Hist., ii. 202.