
John the Baptist and the Knights Templar
The Knights Templar may have been exposed to many heretical views in the east including the Johannite heresy that venerated John the Baptist above Jesus Christ
The Knights Templar may have been exposed to many heretical views in the east including the Johannite heresy that venerated John the Baptist above Jesus Christ
There is a widespread belief that the Knights Templar were illiterate but Tony McMahon argues that this makes no sense when you look at their history
The Roman historian Eusebius claims that a group of Desposyni – the descendants of Christ – met the Emperor Domitian as Tony McMahon investigates
The Templars are often accused of being gay or more particularly sodomites but this may have been a propaganda slur reports Tony McMahon
How Saint James became the patron saint of crusaders and his shrine at Santiago de Compostela
Christian converts from Judaism and Islam may have hoped to avoid the Spanish Inquisition but the 1506 Lisbon massacre proved otherwise as Tony McMahon reports
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how the lives of Christian saints were often based on pagan heroes and deities worshipped for centuries before
The Knights Templar have provided a feeding frenzy for conspiracy theorists for centuries. So, it’s kind of refreshing to see another religious military order – the Knights of Malta – getting the same treatment. I joke, of course. Allegations about Iraq The veteran journalist and scourge of the Vietnam War, Seymour Hersh, has angrily claimed…
The Templar church at Segovia in Spain is dedicated to the True Cross and there is a story of a curious curse put by the knights on the local crows
The theory that the Turin Shroud does not show the face of Jesus but that of Jacques de Molay – the last Templar grand master. Tony McMahon investigates.
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