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The Twelve Days of Christmas explained!

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Tony McMahon

The Twelve Days of Christmas explained in depth from Christmas Day to Twelfth Night and what each day signified in the medieval period

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Category: Templar History Tags: Boxing Day, childermas, Christmas, history, holy innocents, jerusalem, Medieval, middle ages, New Year's Eve, St Stephen's Day, Templar, twelfth night, twelve days of christmas, winter solstice

Leper healer – the sister of Thomas Becket

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Tony McMahon

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Mary Becket was the sister of Saint Thomas Becket and an unsung hero who created a leper colony in London as Tony McMahon discovers

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Category: Templar History Tags: Abbess, America Unearthed, Archbishop of Canterbury, Barking, borough, chapel, Christmas, colony, essex, fact, Forbidden History, heal, healer, history, Ilford, knight, knights, leper, leprosy, Mary Becket, Mary Beckett, medicine, Medieval, murder, murdered, mystery, Redbridge, Scott Wolter, sister, Templar, Thomas

Murder of Thomas Becket at Christmas!

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Tony McMahon

The murder of Thomas Becket was celebrated on the fifth day of Christmas to remember his killing in the year 1170 as Tony McMahon discovers

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Category: Templar History Tags: 29 December, A Becket, Archbishop, becket, beckett, book, canterbury, cathedral, Christmas, Film, Henry VIII, movie, murder, pilgrims, play, Richard Burton, saint, T S Elliot, Templar, thomas becket, tomb

Medieval Christmas – eight centuries ago!

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Tony McMahon

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What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages

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Category: Templar History Tags: abbot, Ancient, blind, buff, carol, Christmas, dark, dulci, egg, feast, feasting, game, games, goose, jubilo, light, Lord, Medieval, middle ages, mike oldfield, misrule, modern, sun, Templar, turkey, unreason, wassail, wassailing, winter solstice, Yule, yuletide

How a Knight Templar celebrated Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Tony McMahon

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

Terrorists endanger Templar sites

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Tony McMahon

The news that Karak castle in Jordan had been attacked by members of the so-called Islamic State is horrifying and shocking. Much worse that a Canadian tourist, Linda Vatcher, was killed in the skirmish along with members of the Jordanian…

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Category: Templar News Tags: Aleppo, Christmas, ISIL, ISIS, jordan, karak, Kerak, knights templar, Krak des Chevaliers, Palmyra, syria, Templar, terrorist

Medieval delight in Sao Bento train station

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Tony McMahon

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Sao Bento train station in Portugal is adorned with tiles painted with medieval battle scenes and as Tony McMahon discovered it’s breathtaking to see

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Category: Templar History Tags: Academia, Christmas, history, Mad Kings & Queens: History's Most Famous Raving Royals, middle ages, porto, portugal, Travel and Tourism

Who invented the crib of Jesus and nativity scene?

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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My Irish grandmother used to usher myself and my sister into her room at Christmas to show off her nativity set. There was the crib of Jesus centre stage, Mary and Joseph, the shepherds, three kings and a couple of…

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Category: Templar History Tags: animals, assisi, bethlehem, christ, Christmas, crib, donkey, first, francis, Greccio, Herod, history, israel, italy, jerusalem, jesus, king, Magi, Medieval, nativity, oxen, scene, shepherd, star

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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An odd tale from the medieval period… A Yuletide feast at the court of King Arthur is interrupted by a strange figure who enters on horseback. He has a green beard, green robes and is riding a green horse. He…

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Category: Templar Mystery Tags: Arthur, Bertilak, Christmas, Gawain, Gawain & The Green Knight, Grail, Green Chapel, green knight, Holy Grail, king arthur, knight, Knightfall, medieval, Round Table, Templar

The link between the Three Wise Men and the Knights Templar

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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The link between the Knights Templar and the Three Wise Men with claims they were all part of an ancient priesthood stretching back to the Solomon era priest Melchizedek

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Category: Templar Mystery Tags: Caspar, christ, Christmas, Epiphany, frankincense, gifts, gold, Helena, Jasper, jesus, John, kings, knights, legend, Magi, manger, Medieval, Melchoir, myrhh, mystery, myth, nativity, Prester, Templar, three, wise