umerous leprosaria, or leper hospitals, sprang up in the Middle Ages; Matthew Paris, a Benedictine Monk, estimated that in the early thirteenth century there were 19,000 across Europe.[84] The first recorded Leper colony was in Harbledown. These institutions were run along monastic lines and, while lepers were encouraged to live in these monastic-type establishments, this was for their own health as well as quarantine. Indeed, some medieval sources indicate belief that those suffering from leprosy were considered to be going through Purgatory on Earth, and for this reason their suffering was considered holier than the ordinary person's. More frequently, lepers were seen to exist in a place between life and death: they were still alive, yet many chose or were forced to ritually separate themselves from mundane existence.[85] The Order of Saint Lazarus was a hospitaller and military order of monks that began as a leper hospital outside Jerusalem in the twelfth century and remained associated with leprosy throughout its history. The first monks in this order were leper knights and they originally had leper grand masters, although these aspects of the order changed over the centuries.
Radegund was noted for washing the feet of lepers. Orderic Vitalis writes of a monk, Ralf, who was so overcome by the plight of lepers that he prayed to catch leprosy himself (which he eventually did). The leper would carry a clapper and bell to warn of his approach, and this was as much to attract attention for charity as to warn people that a diseased person was near.
kevin cruz on 17 Dec 09they killed him the leper king
he did not die yet in da movie he die cause of leper it is a disses that makes your skin fall of
the disses eats your skin litterally
He was the knig of jeruslem.He suffered from leprosy.He was also brother of Sybila.That deaseas makes your skin fall off.When he dies Sybilla takes of his mask and that looked DISGUSTING.
i feel real bad beacuse that not something to joke about beacuse something is eating your skin alive that somethings is bad and they did not have real medince.
He was the king of Jerusalem and brother of Sibylla. He had a decease called Leper and he had to wear a mask and gloves. He had to wear that because it was contagious. His skin will fall of or something like that but it was really ugly.
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was called the Leper king. He was called that because he had Leprosy, a contagious disease. Leprosy was a skin disease that makes your skin fall off. He actually died from that disease, he was a good king. :(
