At least, some have hypothesized that the Crusades were cut short (on an order of decades or even centuries) by the very fact of so many thousands of Europeans joining St. Francis’ first, second, and third orders (respectively, mendicant friars, cloistered nuns, and mostly secular laity), and thereby vowing to live lives devoted to pacifism.
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