TV historian Tony McMahon appears on William Shatner’s The UnXplained to discuss the Ark of the Covenant and other mysteries
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Apollo, Ark, Ark of the Covenant, astronaut, author, Bezos, bible, Blue Origin, buried, cosmonaut, galactic, historian, history, Holy Grail, jerusalem, Kirk, Klingon, Regaleira, Sintra, Spock, Star Trek, Templar, The UnXplained, tony mcmahon, unexplained, William Shatner
So – where was Jesus really crucified? An Easter mystery!
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bible, catholic, cross, crucifixion, Easter, garden, holy, jerusalem, jesus, mystery, orthodox, place, resurrection, roman, sepulchre, site, Templar, tomb, walls, worship
Good Friday is always acted out in a procession during the feast of Our Lady of Agony in Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bible, catholic, christ, crucifix, crucifixion, death, Easter, good friday, history, jesus, procession, risen, Viana do Castelo
We all know Bethlehem, birth place of Jesus. Clearly to the Templars and crusaders, capturing Bethlehem in 1099 had huge spiritual significance. Like the rest of the Levant, it had been taken by Muslim armies from the control of the…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Al-Hakim, Baldwin, basilica, bethlehem, bible, birth, crusader, Crypt, faith, Israeli, jerusalem, jesus, muslim, Palestinian, star, Templar
It’s spelt Capharnaum by the authorities in Israel but I always grew up knowing it as Caperneum – choose which you prefer! But the ruins of the town where Jesus grew up is now preserved behind a wall and includes…
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Today I visited the birthplace of John the Baptist as part of my journey to Israel. The Franciscan monastery at Ein Karem – a village now swallowed up by Jerusalem – is a nineteenth century construction sitting on top of…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: baptist, bible, byzantine, ein karem, franciscan, head, israel, johannite, John, knight, Mandaean, saint, Salome, samaritan, Templar
I was at a christening two years ago when a priest in an Anglican church read a passage from the Old Testament. It was the story of how God’s annointed people, the Israelites, totally destroyed a rival tribe taking no…
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These are some royalty free images of Gothic letters that I thought were very attractive and have decided to share with you for no particular reason, other than a shared interest in this period.
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There were originally way more than four gospels and the lost gospels of the New Testament shed a whole different light on Jesus Christ
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: apocrypha, Bart, bart ehrman, bible, body, Catholic, christianity, copt, crucifixion, death, ebionites, Ehrman, Essenes, faith, flesh, gospel, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Thomas, jesus, lost gospels, marcionites, Mary Magdalene, Peter, resurrection, Thomas
Bernard of Clairvaux did not approve of ornamentation in churches or gaudy painting but defended simplicity
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Benedictine, bernard, bible, church, cistercian, Clairvaux, death, face, gargoyle, goth, gothic, grin, horror, masons, monster, Templar
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