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When Milan was the capital of the west, it surpassed Rome in importance because the imperial court was there. Christianity was made the state religion of the empire with the Edict of Milan. Two fathers of the Catholic church worked in Milan.
In 1074, Pope Gregory VII proposed leading fifty thousand volunteers to help the Christians in the East and possibly liberate the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Finally, in 1095, in response to desperate appeals from Eastern Emperor Alexius Comnenus, the new pope, Urban II, preached a stirring sermon at Clermont: