"consider how in our time god has transferred the west into the east. he who was a roman or a frank is now an inhabitant of palestine. we have already forgotten the places of our birth. some already possess homes and servants here. some have taken wives not merely of their own people, but syrians, or armenians, or even muslims who have received the grace of baptism. different languages, now made common, become known to both peoples, and faith unites those whose forefathers were strangers. our parents and relatives from day to day come to join us, abandoning, even though reluctantly, all that they possess. for those who were poor there, here god makes rich. those who had few coins, here possess countless riches. those who did not have a home in the west, by the gift of god, already possess a city in the east. therefore, why should one who has found the east so favorable return to the west? god does not wish those to suffer poverty who, carrying their crosses, have vowed to follow him, even unto the end."