Bom Jesus in Braga – baroque kitsch!
The church of Bom Jesus in the northern Portuguese city of Braga is a superb example of baroque Catholic kitsch
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The Holy Sepulchre – sacred to the Knights Templar
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates why the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was so venerated by the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages
The murder of Thomas Becket
The murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, scandalised Europe and created a popular saint.
Is it a mosque or a church?
Toledo in Spain shows how Christians and Muslims lived together and even allowed churches to become mosques and vice versa
Secrets of the Knights Templar revealed!
Secrets of the Knights Templar revealed on The Templar Knight blog such as how they wore their hair and eating habits, detailed by Tony McMahon
Season of the Witch – Nicholas Cage and the Templars
Season of the Witch is what you expect with a Nicholas Cage movie – it’s fun and a romp but don’t expect something terribly serious
Seventeen Jewish bodies found in medieval well in England
Seventeen bodies of Jewish people killed in a medieval pogrom have been discovered in a well in England – a tragic example of racism in the past, as Tony McMahon discovers.
The Lost Gospels – Apocrypha – and the mysteries they reveal
There were originally way more than four gospels and the lost gospels of the New Testament shed a whole different light on Jesus Christ
A Pope calls for a Crusade against Islam
Pope Urban called for a crusade to defend the Byzantine empire against the Seljuk Turks who had converted to Islam and now approached Constantinople
Your Day of Judgment has arrived – medieval style
In English medieval churches, it’s now almost impossible to imagine the walls as they once were – covered in lurid depictions of the Day of Judgment and hell fire for the sinful. During the Protestant Reformation, church walls were whitewashed, the faces of saints in wood carving were hacked off and stain glass windows even…
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