Medieval Easter – ten pointless facts
One pointless fact after another about Easter in a top ten of Tony McMahon’s Easter Pointless Facts on the Knight Templar blog

One pointless fact after another about Easter in a top ten of Tony McMahon’s Easter Pointless Facts on the Knight Templar blog
Good Friday 2012 found Tony McMahon in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem watching as Easter pilgrims came into worship where Jesus was crucified
Good Friday is always acted out in a procession during the feast of Our Lady of Agony in Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal
The city of Coventry was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1940 destroying its medieval cathedral but archaeologists are now exploring its secret crypts
The Knights Templar had an unhappy time trying to rule Cyprus faced with a revolt they had to crush with a massacre of the local population
The year was 1314 and before the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burnt at the stake in front of a huge crowd. After two hundred years of crusading, it was all over for the Order of the Temple. It was all over…
Thirteen skeletons have been unearthed in the Farringdon area of London – believed to be victims of the fourteenth century Black Death.
TV historian Tony McMahon explains the different methods of medieval torture used by the inquisition against heretics
TV historian Tony McMahon investigates what went on in a Templar preceptory and how they generated wealth for the order
Top Knight Templar history books recommended by Tony McMahon
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