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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

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