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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Knut_Lavard-e1454625220462.jpg585397In the Middle Ages, saints were invoked before great, decisive battles, they sometimes participated directly themselves, and they did so more and more often after the eleventh and especially the twelfth century.