The Second Crusade in 1148 had failed to conquer Damascus, which soon fell to Zengi's son Nur ad-Din.

A second time he was excommunicated ; but in 1146 he took the cross at the meeting of Vezelay called by Louis VII, and in August, 1147 embarked for the East in the Second Crusade.

Following the Christian defeat at the Siege of Edessa, the pope commissioned Bernard to preach the Second Crusade.

Category: Christians of the Second Crusade

As Queen of France, she participated in the unsuccessful Second Crusade.

Eleanor of Aquitaine took up the Second Crusade formally during a sermon preached by Bernard of Clairvaux.

Her testimonial launch of the Second Crusade from Vézelay, the rumored location of Mary Magdalene ´ s burial, dramatically emphasized the role of women in the campaign.

In 1147, Conrad heard Bernard of Clairvaux preach the Second Crusade at Speyer, and he agreed to join King Louis VII of France in a great expedition to the Holy Land which failed.

He later involved the Kingdom of France in the Second Crusade but his relationship with Eleanor did not improve.

It was the Swedish regent, Birger Jarl, who established Swedish rule in Finland through the Second Swedish Crusade, most often dated to 1249, which was aimed at Tavastians who had stopped being Christian again.

* 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.

The fall of Edessa shocked Europe, and a Second Crusade arrived in 1148.

The failure of the Second Crusade had dire long-term consequences for the kingdom.

The white mantle was assigned to the Templars at the Council of Troyes in 1129, and the cross was most probably added to their robes at the launch of the Second Crusade in 1147, when Pope Eugenius III, King Louis VII of France, and many other notables attended a meeting of the French Templars at their headquarters near Paris.

( Sweden eventually took over Finland after the Second Swedish Crusade in 1249.

They appear to have been originally founded by some soldiers from the Second Crusade, who, on their way back, were converted by a Bulgarian sect, the Bogomils.

* 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.

The crusade occurred parallel to the Second Crusade to the Holy Land, and continued irregularly until the 16th century.

* First Swedish Crusade, Second Swedish Crusade and Third Swedish Crusade

The age of the Swedish language's presence in Finland is strongly contested ( see Swedish-speaking Finns ), but by the time of the Second Swedish Crusade in the 13th century, Swedish settlement spread the language into the region.

Category: Christians of the Second Swedish Crusade

Category: Christians of the Second Crusade

Four out of five houses constructed under Labour were council properties built to more generous specifications than before the Second World War, and subsidies kept down council rents.

However this is not inflexible as the iconoclasm controversy was instigated by order of an ecumenical council ( Council of Hieria ), which took another ecumenical council ( Second Council of Nicaea 787 ) to reverse.

#* Second Council of Ephesus ( 449 ) declared Eutyches orthodox and attacked his opponents. Though originally convened as an ecumenical council, this council is not recognized as ecumenical and denounced as a Robber Council by the Chalcedonians ( Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants ).

# Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ) restored the veneration of icons ( condemned at the Council of Hieria, 754 ) and repudiated iconoclasm. This council is rejected by some Protestant denominations, which condemn the veneration of icons.

Elected to the central council was Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of Marwan Barghouti who is serving five life sentences in Israel for his role in terrorist attacks on civilians in Israel during the Second Intifada.

During the early years of the Second Temple, the highest religious authority was a council known as the Great Assembly, led by Ezra of the Book of Ezra.

In 2001, his book Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism led to Dupuis being investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department of the Roman Curia, which noted ambiguities regarding agreement between what he called a " Christian theology of religious pluralism " and the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the popes of the council and later.

* 1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

* 1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.

He tells the pope that he is suspect of heresy for accepting the Fifth Ecumenical Council ( the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 ), and exhorts him to summon a council and prove his orthodoxy.

On his arrival at Rome, his first act was to summon the council which met at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 for the purpose of considering the East-West Schism, the condition of the Holy Land, and the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church.

This rule was changed by the Second Lateran council of 1139.

By the Second Lateran council of 1139, at which King Roger II of Sicily, Innocent II's most uncompromising foe, was excommunicated, peace was at last restored to the Church.

Second Session ( September 26, 787 ) -- Papal legates read the letters of Pope Hadrian I asking for agreement with veneration of images, to which question the bishops of the council answered: " We follow, we receive, we admit ".

After Seoul fell easily, Japanese commanders held a war council in June in Seoul and determined targets of subjugation called Hachidokuniwari ( literally, dividing the country into eight routes ) by each corps ( the First Division of Konishi Yukinaga and others from Pyeongan Province, the Second Division of Kato Kiyomasa and others from Hangyong Province, the Third Division of Kuroda Nagamasa and others from Hwanghae Province, the Forth Division of Mōri Yoshinari and others from Gangwon Province ; the Fifth Division of Fukushima Masanori and others from Chungcheong Province ; the Sixth Division by Kobayakawa Takakage and others from Jeolla Province, the Seventh Division by Mōri Terumoto and others from Gyeongsang Province, and the Eighth Division of Ukita Hideie and others from Gyeonggi Province ).

** Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

* October 11 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.

* 383 BC: Second Buddhist council at Vesali, 100 years after the Parinirvana.

* May 23 – The Second Charter of Virginia is officially ratified, which is intended to replace the council with a Governor who has absolute control in the colony.

The major expansion of 1928 also incorporated the villages of Patcham, Ovingdean and Rottingdean, and much council housing was built in parts of Woodingdean after the Second World War.

Judenräte ( singular Judenrat ; German for " Jewish council ") were administrative bodies during the Second World War that the Germans required Jews to form in the German occupied territory.