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
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