 They strove for a more authentic liturgy and religiosity, which would base on the believer's personal relationship with God; they rejected clericalism, social conservativism and capitalism, and demanded the development of a new social order, based on an ethically renewed individual.The group became eventually known as the "Crusaders" (), after the journal "Križ na gori" ("Cross on the Mountain"), edited by the poet Anton Vodnik, who became one of the spiritual leaders of the group.In 1925, Kocbek graduated from the Maribor gymnasium and went to a long excursion through Italy together with his close friend Pino Mlakar.