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...gainst other religions, a classic example of a crusade was the children’s crusade where loads of children drowned because they thought the sea in front of them would open up like it did for Moses. Many people also went on pilgrimages to country’s thousands of miles away to pray in temples, to get healed from illnesses and to get Gods respect. When people got to temples they left money and gold by statues of saints and body parts an example is Thomas Becket whose body parts were kept in Canterbury there historians found hundreds of gold rings, silver, money even diamond bracelets. Another reason why the medieval period was known as the age of faith was the power of the church, even the king had to ask the church if he had made the right decision or not which caused many arguments like the long argument between king Henry and Thomas Becket, which lead to Becket being killed by four knights in Canterbury. In the medieval period many people helped to build cathedrals and churches which proved people strongly believed in God and spent whole life times helping to build cathedrals and churches. ...