“I, the least of the servants of your Holiness, not being able to keep them [the crusaders] within the walls, went forth into the field with them, and running from place to place, made them retire, or advance, or formed them in such a way that the enemy could not attack them in the rear. And finally our Lord, Who is as powerful to overcome with few as with many, in His mercy placed the victory in our hands, and routed that most cruel army of the Turks, so as to put them to a shameful flight. Our men remained in possession of all the artillery and all the diabolical machines with which they presumed that they should place under their own feet the whole of Christendom. Let your Holiness, therefore, rejoice in the Lord, and order that to His Majesty be given the praise, the glory, and the honour, because He alone hath done these marvellous things. Neither I, your unarmed and useless servant, nor the poor and rude Crusaders, the devoted servants of your Holiness, could have wrought with our own strength alone that which has been done. The Lord God of hosts it is that has done all, to Him be glory for ever and ever!” St. John of Capistrano