Why Medieval Easter Meant More Than Today
Easter was massively important in the medieval world marking the death and resurrection of Jesus as well as the return of the sun – with all its pagan connotations as Tony McMahon discovers

Easter was massively important in the medieval world marking the death and resurrection of Jesus as well as the return of the sun – with all its pagan connotations as Tony McMahon discovers
Did the Knights Templar engage in secret initiation rites that were discovered by the Catholic church leading to their downfall?
The Knights Templar were based in Jerusalem and it’s said they dug under the Temple Mount looking for treasure like the Holy Grail
The church of San Nicola Carcere in Rome was built on top of three pagan temples as Tony McMahon discovers
How English churches have radically transformed since the Knights Templar with the removal of rood screens and whitewashing of walls
Good Friday 2012 found Tony McMahon in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem watching as Easter pilgrims came into worship where Jesus was crucified
Good Friday is always acted out in a procession during the feast of Our Lady of Agony in Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal
Saint Francis unveiled the first Nativity scene in the Middle Ages strengthening the birth story of Jesus
Tony McMahon investigates the inconsistencies in the Nativity Story that forms the basis of our traditional Christmas narrative
The devil wasn’t always ugly but was once the most handsome of the angels. So, Tony McMahon asks, how did he get to be such a monster?
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