| For the speedway team see Canterbury Crusaders (speedway).The Crusaders (formerly the Canterbury Crusaders) are a New Zealand rugby union team based in Christchurch, New Zealand, that competes in the Super 14 (formerly the Super 12).They are the most successful team in Super Rugby history.Their main home ground is AMI Stadium, formerly Jade Stadium.Super 12 before its expansion.After finishing top of the table in that season, the Crusaders went on to host the final in which they defeated the Waratahs.As a result of winning their fifth Super 12 title, the Crusaders were given the trophy to keep.They have also scored the most points in one season: 469 in 2002.Several members of the Crusaders also hold records: Andrew Mehrtens for most points in a Super 12 season (206 in 1998), Daniel Carter with most points in a Super 14 season (221 in 2006), and Rico Gear for most tries in a season (15 in 2005).Hat trick: 1998 to 2000
1.Name and colours
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4 Grounds
5 Super records and achievements
5.Players and coaches of note
6.Beginnings: 1996 and 1997
The Crusaders' franchise was created as one of five New Zealand teams in the Super 12.The original Crusaders team of 1996 was captained by All Blacks prop Richard Loe and coached by Vance Stewart.The Crusaders struggled in the inaugural season and finished bottom of the table with only two wins.The following season saw a change in captain and coach, with Todd Blackadder succeeding Loe as captain and Wayne Smith taking over as coach.While the Crusaders attempted to get MacDonald back on the field, the Blues scored two tries, including one by Brooke, who was later suspended for two weeks for the shoulder charge.Lancaster Park, now known as AMI Stadium.Todd Blackadder holding the Super 12 trophy after the Crusaders won the 1998 final against the Blues at Eden Park.The Crusaders won their first title in 1998 despite starting the season with three losses in their first four games.In the final at Eden Park, the Crusaders faced the Blues, who were heavy favourites.After Crusader Norm Maxwell scored a try, the game was tied 10 all.Upon the Crusaders' return to Christchurch, they were given a parade through the city that drew 100,000 people.Rugby World Cup, Wayne Smith succeeded John Hart as All Blacks coach.The Crusaders bounced back dramatically in 2002 when they went through the Super 12 season unbeaten, achieving their fourth title.We'd finally been beaten, the run was over, so people could stop talking about it and we could get on with playing it week by week."The Crusaders recovered to finish second on the table with eight wins.Hurricanes, who were coached by Colin Cooper, a former assistant coach for the Crusaders.In the final, the Crusaders met the Blues, another team coached by a former Crusaders assistant coach, Peter Sloane.The Crusaders' 2004 season began with two losses: first to the Waratahs, then to the Blues.They recovered to again finish second on the table with seven wins.Brumbies victory over the Crusaders in Canberra.McCaw returned from his five weeks on the sideline to lead the Crusaders in their semifinal victory over the Hurricanes.They faced the Waratahs in the final at Jade Stadium.As a reward for their seventh finals appearance and fifth title, the Crusaders were allowed to keep the Super 12 trophy.After the 2005 season, the franchise saw the departure of stalwarts Andrew Mehrtens and Justin Marshall, both of whom had played for the team since its formation in 1996.An unbeaten run of sixteen matches was nearly halted when the Crusaders drew with the Western Force in Perth in round eleven.The following week, the unbeaten run was ended when the Crusaders lost to the Stormers in Cape Town.Sections of the crowd could not see the field, and many spectators left during the match.In the 2007 Super 14 season, seven Crusaders players missed the first seven rounds of the competition to participate in an All Black "conditioning programme".The Crusaders' seven players in the programme was more than any other New Zealand Super 14 franchise.The Crusaders players were Chris Jack, Richie McCaw, Greg Somerville, Reuben Thorne, Dan Carter, Leon MacDonald, and Aaron Mauger.All but one of the seven returned to play for the Crusaders in their eighth round match against the Stormers (Greg Somerville did not return due to injury).Crusaders to finish second in the round robin.The Crusaders' name was chosen to reflect the crusading nature of Canterbury rugby."Crusaders" recalled the English heritage of the city of Christchurch.Canterbury, South Canterbury, Tasman and West Coast rugby unions.Like all New Zealand Super 14 sides, the Crusaders are able to protect 24 players from within their franchise area each season.Before 2006, when the domestic National Provincial Championship was reorganised, Canterbury was the only provincial union playing division one (now Air New Zealand Cup) within the Crusaders' franchise area.As a result, the majority of Crusaders players played for Canterbury.The Crusaders usually take one game each year to another part of the franchise area, most often when the New Zealand cricket team is playing at AMI Stadium.The Crusaders' management proposed playing a 2005 regular season match in Melbourne when Jade Stadium was unavailable.Melbourne, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) vetoed the proposal.Melbourne against the Western Force at Olympic Park Stadium.Super records and achievements
The Crusaders have won five of the ten Super 12 competitions, and lost another two finals.They also hosted the inaugural Super 14 final, which they won.Between 1998 and 2006, the Crusaders made the final every season except for one, in 2001.Competition records
The Crusaders team and members of its squad hold various competition records in both the Super 12 and Super 14.This game set the record for the largest winning margin (which has since been beaten), the most tries scored (14), and the most conversions in a match (13).The team also has the record for most points scored in a season, with 469 scored in 2002.Several individuals have achieved competition records whilst playing for the team.Daniel Carter holds the Super 14 record of 221 points.Andrew Mehrtens also holds the record for Super points overall, with 990 accumulated during his Crusaders career.Super rugby to win 100 matches.Four Crusaders have played more than 100 games for the Crusaders: Justin Marshall, Reuben Thorne, Caleb Ralph, and Greg Somerville.Justin Marshall was the first player to achieve the feat, playing for the Crusaders between 1996 and 2005.Both Thorne and Ralph achieved the 100 game mark at the same time; however, Ralph had played nine of his matches for other franchises: three for the Chiefs and six for the Blues.Ralph achieved the "100 Crusaders games" feat later that season; remarkably, they were played consecutively.Leon MacDonald has played over 100 Super rugby matches, but as five of those were for the Chiefs in 1999, he has only played 99 for the Crusaders.The Crusaders also boast two winners of the IRB International Player of the Year Award: Daniel Carter (2005) and Richie McCaw (2006).Team of the decade
On the eve of the last Super 12 final in 2005, a panel of experts picked the Crusaders team of the decade, which was published by the Christchurch Press.The experts chosen to select the team were: Tane Norton (former All Blacks captain), Vance Stewart (first Crusaders coach), Dick Tayler (president of supporters club), Bob Schumacher (former Christchurch Press rugby writer) and Tony Smith (Christchurch Press rugby writer).Despite being considered one of Canterbury's best ever props, Richard Loe missed out as he was only in the team for the unsuccessful 1996 season.The former All Black captain Reuben Thorne was omitted due the quality of players in the lock and blindside flanker positions.The most unlikely inclusion was for Norm Berryman at right wing.Coaches
The Crusaders were coached in their first season by Vance Stewart, who was assisted by Aussie McLean.Stewart was replaced by Wayne Smith in 1997; McLean too was replaced, by Peter Sloane.Smith continued as coach until he was appointed All Blacks coach after the 1999 season.Deans' assistant for the 2007 season was former Crusader Mark Hammett.Retrieved on 22 September 2006.Corey Flynn will captain the Crusaders for the first seven rounds of the 2007 Super 14.The Marlborough and Nelson Bays unions have since amalgamated to form the Tasman Rugby Union.McIlraith (2005), pg 235.McIlraith (2005), pg 252.McIlraith (2005), pg 85.McIlraith (2005), pg 260.McIlraith (2005), pg 106.McIlraith (2005), pg 269.McIlraith (2005), pg 125.McIlraith (2005), pg 303."Rugby: Sharks, Bulls snatch top two spots", herald.The Marlborough and Nelson Bays rugby unions had not yet merged."Crusaders at full tilt", sarugby."McCaw named IRB Player of the Year", irb.The Stories Behind 125 years of Canterbury Rugby.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.There is a glow to the priest when he talks.Something lights him up inside, and its intensity is increased by the mild way he says what he's saying.The words, harsh and unyielding, seem not so much a departure from the mainstream as they do a living refutation that there is any mainstream at all, not one to which the priest has to pay any mind, anyway."One is, Do I think it would be better that way?"No, I don't think that's possible," he says.But, unfortunately, in the past, these types of things have tended to end this way."If American Catholics feel that's troubling, let them.He's the priest of the power corridor, right there on K Street in Washington, where you can look out the windows of his Catholic Information Center and see the sharpies flocking on the sidewalk, organizing the complicated subleasing of various parts of the national treasure.In keeping with his surroundings, McCloskey has lobbied for his 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event, representing for some the ongoing spirit of reform in the church and for others a kind of theological breeder reactor, constantly on the edge of going out of control.Over his lengthy pontificate, John Paul II has allied himself with the traditionalist side of every ongoing dispute within the church.In 1982, the pope raised the stature of Opus Dei by declaring it to be a personal prelature, which placed the society outside the episcopal hierarchy of the church and made it accountable only to the Vatican itself.Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, which joined Magdalen College in New Hampshire and Christendom College in Virginia as new traditionalist Catholic colleges.Among Weigel's projects was a series of seminars that he held in various eastern European countries.So when Weigel tells a Legatus gathering near Boston that "liberal Catholicism is out of gas intellectually.They dissented, never more loudly than in the past two years, when they demanded accountability from their bishops over the issues of the sexual abuse scandal.These were not arcane doctrinal disputes.They were grotesque secular crimes.As the dust settled, some groups began talking about the "opportunity" that the scandal presented to reform within the church.Up the broad staircases, in a room with great wooden doors, the bishops have come to listen at a private meeting of conservative Catholics.Back in July, Bishop Wilton Gregory, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, had attended a meeting in Washington with several influential lay people who voiced their concerns to him and a handful of other bishops regarding lingering issues of the clergy sexual abuse scandal.Almost immediately, the conservative network reacted strongly to what it termed a "secret meeting" between the bishops and "dissenters" and organized its own meeting at the Cosmos Club in September, which Gregory and the other bishops could hardly refuse to attend.Zyklon B gas used by the Nazis in concentration camps during World War II.Hudson is a former Baptist minister who says he left that faith "because I was too liberal.That's what they told me.Because I loved music and the movies and I asked philosophical questions."In 1995, he took over at Crisis.In one of his first issues, Hudson wrote a prescient piece about a possible alliance between evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics.By 1999, however, the Christian Coalition had fallen into disarray, and, looking elsewhere for religious conservatives, the George W.Bush campaign hired Hudson to help peel off some of the Catholic vote."Hudson saw an opportunity when he looked deeper into the numbers.John McCloskey's righteous remnant seemed to be moving toward a common political ground at least with conservative Protestants, with whom they have marked theological differences, particularly regarding the pope."We developed different strategies," Hudson explains.Clearly, Hudson sees his own journey reflected in the data that he helped gather for the White House.For example, the Republican Party announced the formulation of a National Catholic Leadership Forum to plan strategies in the 2002 congressional elections as well as Bush's reelection campaign next year.Bush appointed John Klink, a former Vatican diplomat, to a position in the State Department involved with population studies, and did so over another candidate preferred by Secretary of State Colin Powell.Indeed, the Bush campaign was the first real attempt to reconnect conservative Catholics with the religious right.As Robert George told The Washington Post in April 2001, "In 1960, John Kennedy went from Washington down to Texas to assure Protestant preachers that he would not obey the pope.The group, according to George, had come together "to give support to the bishops in their efforts to teach what the church believes on these issues.""My advice is not to place on boards people who in general do not believe what the church believes on key issues.Even John McCloskey has said that he would leave the church if, by some chance, a future pope were to change the church's stand on, say, birth control or abortion.The end to clerical celibacy is never going to be an issue in the New Hampshire primary but opposition to gay marriages will be.And it will be a capital irony if the counterreformation ends up less as a theological awakening than as a political moment.Catholicism, working the sacred out through the profane.Deal Hudson does not like John McCloskey.Before saying anything about him, and nothing that's good, Hudson turns off a reporter's tape recorder.His positions are the sharp, logical end of what Hudson believes about Voice of the Faithful and of all the philosophical filigree with which Robert George surrounds his opinions about Leon Panetta.Pierce is a member of the Globe Magazine staff.Holding the line against reform, steadfast traditionalists make up a "righteous remnant."They
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nursing homes to civic auditoriums.The Vikings Discover America, ca.The city's Muslim masters exhibited a certain level of religious tolerance.Then, in the latter part of the 11th century, the Turks swarmed westward out of Central Asia overrunning all that lay in their path.Jerusalem fell to them in 1076.The atmosphere of tolerance practiced by the followers of Omar was replaced by vicious attacks on the Christian pilgrims and on their sacred shrines in the Holy City.Reports of robberies, beatings, killings, degradation of holy sites and the kidnapping for ransom of the city's patriarch made their way back to Europe.In response, Pope Urban II called a conference at the city of Clermont, France in 1095, concluding the eight days of deliberation with one of history's most influential speeches.Mounting a lofty scaffold, the Pope exhorted the assembled multitude to wrest the Holy Land from the hands of the Infidel and assured them that God would absolve them from any sin associated with the venture.In the spring of 1097, a host of over 100,000 crusaders joined forces on the eastern side of the Bosphorus.Exulting with joy we reached the city of Jerusalem
on Tuesday, June 6, and we besieged it in a wonderful manner.Robert of Normandy
besieged it on the northern side, near the church of St.Next to him was Robert, Count of Flanders.Gilles
operated from the south, on Mount Sion, near the church of St.Day and night on the fourth and fifth days of the week we vigorously attacked the city on all sides; but before we made our assault the bishops and priests persuaded all by their preaching and exhortation that a procession should be made round Jerusalem to God's honour, faithfully accompanied by prayers, alms and fasting.We were all surprised and alarmed.One of our knights, Letholdus by name, climbed on to the wall of the city.Our men followed and pursued them, killing and hacking, as far as the temple of Solomon, and there there was such a slaughter that our men were up to their ankles in the enemy's blood.There the Saracens assembled and resisted fiercely all day, so that
the whole temple flowed with their blood.Then the crusaders scattered throughout the city, seizing gold and silver, horses and mules, and houses full of all sorts of goods.Peter in chains, they elected as Patriarch a most wise and honourable man, named Arnulf.How To Cite This Article:
"The Crusaders Capture Jerusalem, 1099," EyeWitness to History, www.The Crusaders
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