The following illustration, based on the "Children's Crusades," is a conflation of many different tales that have been embellished for centuries, for their oratory effect. We include this here as a reminder to be careful grabbing stories from the internet and using them without first doing some investigative work:

In 1212 a French shepherd boy by the name of Steven claimed that Jesus had appeared to him disguised as a pilgrim. Supposedly, Jesus instructed him to take a letter to the king of France. This poor, misguided boy told everyone about what he thought he had encountered. Before long he had gathered a large following of more than thirty thousand children who accompanied him on his pilgrimage. As Philip Schaff …