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Templar secret initiation rites – the truth

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Tony McMahon

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…

Vatican secret archives on display

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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I hadn’t planned on a holiday to Rome this year until I found out that the Vatican has given unprecedent access to some of its vast secret archive at the Capitoline Museum in Rome. Included in this will be a…

Were the Knights Templar really monks?

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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Even thought the Knights Templar are often referred to as warrior monks – they weren’t monks in the strictest sense of the word as Tony McMahon reports