Templar link to the Turin Shroud?
The Templecombe connection in rumours that the Turin Shroud was once in the hands of the Knights Templar as Tony McMahon explains

The Templecombe connection in rumours that the Turin Shroud was once in the hands of the Knights Templar as Tony McMahon explains
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.
The Templar belief in anti-Christ was very strong – and may even have inspired the crusades with the belief that Jerusalem had to be retaken before the end of times
In 1309, the papal nuncios – Dieudonné, abbot of Lagny, and Sicard de Lavaur, canon of Narbonne – arrived in England with a mission. They were going to root out the Templars, put them on trial, and turbo-charge the proceedings against the order.
Prester John was a king who never existed and yet the crusaders and Knights Templar believed he would come to their rescue in the Holy Land
In some Templar churches – most notably in Portugal – you can see the pentagram symbol but what does it mean? Tony McMahon investigates.
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