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THE CRUSADES.
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prayers. Many of them shed tears about his neck, and attributed the deliverance of Jerusalem solely to his courage and perseverance. Peter afterwards held some ecclesiastical office in the holy city, but what it was, or what was his ultimate fate, history has forgotten to inform us.
Siege of Jerusalem.
Some say that he returned to France and founded a monastery, but the story does not rest upon sufficient authority.