CHAPTER VI.

Growth of Relic-Worship--Schemes of the Roman Pontiffs--Manufacture of Relics--Their Great Variety--Value of Relics--Insults Offered to Pilgrims--Peter the Hermit--Crusades--Disorderly Rabble--Terrible Suffering--Capture of Jerusalem--Terrible Massacre--Capture of Constantinople--Crusades of the Children--Results of the Crusades--Revival of Learning.