What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbot, Ancient, blind, buff, carol, Christmas, dark, dulci, egg, feast, feasting, game, games, goose, jubilo, light, Lord, Medieval, middle ages, mike oldfield, misrule, modern, sun, Templar, turkey, unreason, wassail, wassailing, winter solstice, Yule, yuletide
The walking dead in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Ancient, buried, dead, death, decay, die, exhume, grave, Living Dead, medieval, reanimate, revenant, tomb, vampire, walking, Walking Dead, wharram percy, years, Yorkshire, zombie
For centuries, it’s been alleged that the Knights Templar had secret initiation rites through which a young man joined this order of holy warriors. Some allege the Templars used rituals from the Cathar heresy – a variant of Christianity condemned…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Ancient, barbara frale, bottom, brother, brotherhood, cave, christ, clandestine, cross, crucifix, deny, egypt, faith, gay, head, history, homosexual, illegal, initiation, initiation rites, Islam, kiss, kissing, knights, medieval, occult, rites, secret, sodomy, spine, spitting, Templar, underground, worship
The period of Lent leading up to Easter was hazardous for Jews in the Middle Ages falsely accused of the killing of Jesus by ignorant people
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ancient, blood libel, crucifixion, diaspora, Easter, ill, jesus, jews, king, knight, knights, Lent, Medieval, pogrom, prejudice, queen, synagogue, Talmud, Templar, Torah, treatment
The ancient Roman city of Jerash never stopped changing through the Byzantine and crusader period though it declined economically and because of earthquakes
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The Templar Knight blog has just visited the biblical city of Gadara – part of the Decapolis – and now known as Um Qais to see its Roman ruins
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Category: Templar History
Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Ancient Rome, basalt, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Decapolis, Gadara, Galilee, jesus, jordan, Kingdom, middle east, roman, rome, Saudi Arabia, syria, Templar, Um Qais
One of many Christian saints reputedly martyred by the emperor Diocletian – Saint Lucy is the patron saint of the blind. Appropriately, as she either had her eyes gouged out by a Roman soldier or tore out her own eyes…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ancient, diocletian, eyes, gouged, history, Lucia, martyr, People, port st. lucie florida, roman, rome, Saint Lucy
Medieval London was a walled city and there’s a still a street called London Wall that follows where the now demolished wall once stood
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ages, aldersgate, Ancient, city, cripplegate, england, fact, history, London, London wall, Medieval, middle, middle ages, mile, roman, square, Templar, today, wall
Syria was a prized possession of the Knights Templar – or at least parts of it – before the knights were forced out of the country
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ancient, Arwad, Assad, Babylonian, byzantine, County of Tripoli, Damascus, Greek, Hittite, jerusalem, knight, Knight Templar, Outremer, rome, syria, Tartus, Templar, templars, Tortosa
