According to Tiffany Vann Sprecher, James of Vitry (c. 1160-1240) student of Peter de Chanter, was an Augustinian canon whose written legacy includes a Vita of the famous beguine Mary of Oignies and nearly 450 model sermons for preachers to deliver as written or to use as inspiration in writing their own sermons. “The remission of sins and the reward of eternal life” was one of the sermons pictured of Urban preaching by James of Vitry appeals to the nobles’ hope for remission of sins and entrance into the heaven. According to this sermon, people I meant Crusaders who prepared themselves for the services of God, those who confessed and expressed remorse or penitence, are considered true martyrs while they are in the service of Christ. Those people are freed from venal and also mortal sins, all the penitence they took pleasure in, consumed from the punishment for their sins in this world and the punishment of purgatory in the next world, safe from the tortures of hell, in the glory and honor of being crowned in eternal benediction.
