Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bethlehem, birth, bishop, boy, Christmas, crib, jesus, king, knight, Knightfall, manger, medieval, mummer, mumming, Nicholas, peacock, queen, saint, Templar, wassail, wassailing, Yule
Tony McMahon investigates the inconsistencies in the Nativity Story that forms the basis of our traditional Christmas narrative
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Category: Templar History
Tags: birth, christ, christianity, donkey, Early Christianity, flock, Gabriel, God the Father, HolySpirit, Jesu, kings, Magi, Mary, Nativity story, oxen, shepherds, Theotokos
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
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