Reading the excellent post of J. Bird, my native idleness prompts me to
ask if there is any proof that Francis of Assisi actually went to Egypt.
Vitry certainly did because he reports that he bought Muslim children
enslaved after the fall of Damietta in 1120 and converted them. What is
the classical model presaging the enslavement of Muslims by Christians and
vice versa? John Mundy
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