All 4 Uses of
crusade
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Their brutal crusade to "reeducate" the pagan and feminine-worshipping religions spanned three centuries, employing methods as inspired as they were horrific.†
Chpt 27-28
- Langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and told King Baldwin II that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways.†
Chpt 37-38
- That's part of what the Crusades were about.†
Chpt 59-60 *
- The Church may no longer employ crusaders to slaughter non-believers, but their influence is no less persuasive.†
Chpt 99-100 *
Definitions:
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(Crusades as in: First Crusade to Jerusalem) the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East
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(crusade as in: a crusade against pollution) a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important