_ 193 _ all will run to him, with their wealth and their body, laying down their lives for it. Perhaps this will not come about except by divine permission, by which the Christian faith would be spread by a devout victory, and then with prosperous and proper assistance the holy house of Jesus, removed from the hands of the barbarians and with their total loss, would be redeemed sooner and more easily. These things we tell Your Holiness, Holy Father, which must come about if it is your intention, as we believe, are within your reach. Then the supremacy will come about, with great prosperity and a sweetness of love and peace, when your good fortune removes from the Christian kings and princes the ill-will and discord that exist between them, through which they are destroying each other. When it was suggested to Your Holiness’s blessed predecessor Pope Alexander by some Christian princes [catholically], who did not include us, he put it from him, so we believe, only because almighty God had reserved this holy and pious work for Your Holiness, and only in your time a [...] incomparable grace for [?you] to be a most worthy vicar. Because this matter is something which it is important to achieve and so necessary [...], these things are offered to you to which [...] Your Holiness should not ignore, for the great thankfulness to God and His great
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