In 1217, Pope Innocent III proclaimed the Fifth Crusade, with the intention of retaking the holy city of Jerusalem. Various kings agreed to join the Crusade, and the Papal Legate, Cardinal ...

A new documentary, “The Sultan and the Saint,” is the story of St. Francis leaving Assisi to cross enemy lines and meet with the sultan in Damietta, Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade ...

The journey was certainly perilous. Tens of thousands of Christian soldiers had arrived in 1218 outside the small city on the Mediterranean to lay siege under the banner of the Fifth Crusade.

Traveling to Morocco, he had to turn back after reaching Spain. A second trip ended in a storm on the Mediterranean. But in 1219, he succeeded in reaching Egypt in the midst of the Fifth Crusade.