A visit to Istanbul – once called Constantinople and capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baphomet, blind, Blue Mosque, byzantine, christ, Cistern, constantinople, crusade, Dan Brown, Dandolo, doge, empire, Enrico, faith, fourth, Galata, god, Hagia Sophia, Holiday, hotel, Inferno, istanbul, James Bond, Karavan, Knightfall, Ottoman, safe, Templar, tourism, tourist, tower, weekend
Last month I was in Rome and one theme of my trip was looking at pagan temples of the Roman period that were then converted into Christian churches during the Middle Ages. Here we see how the Temple to Faustina…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: antoninus, catholic, church, faustina, forum, god, heresy, lorenzo, miranda, mystic, pagan, pius, Religion and Spirituality, san, Temple
There were links between the Knights Templar and the Cathars or Albigensian heresy that might explain why the King of France crushed the Templars
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, buried, Cathar, Catharism, catholic, Catholic Church, channel, christianity, Clement, crusade, De Nogaret, drama, dualism, dualist, fish, france, gnostic, god, heresy, heretic, history, innocent, Knightfall, Languedoc, Mani, meat, middle east, Philip, pope, priory of sion, Rex Deus, Saint Peter, series, sex
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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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Assumption of Mary, BBC Four, casting, christ, christianity, devil, exorcism, Giotto, god, handsome, Judas Iscariot, Lincoln Cathedral, lucifer, middle ages, out, Ravenna, roman, satan, ugly, Venice, Winchester Psalter
Here is a roadside shrine I came across in the town of Ancora in northern Portugal. Behind bars is a painted and carved depiction of sinners amidst flames and above them the triumphant figure of the archangel in what I’m…
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Tony McMahon looks at how to survive a medieval pandemic by examining the comments and actions of people who went through the Black Death
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Category: Templar History
Tags: black death, Bubonic Plague, Colorado, Coronavirus, Covid, cure, Decameron, disinfectant, flagellant, flagellation, florence, Galen, Giovanni Boccaccio, god, Hippocrates, humors, humours, Infectious disease, lockdown, lungs, medicine, Medieval, middle ages, onions, pandemic, quack, quarantine, sick
I’ve been asked by many of you – where are today’s Knights Templar? Well, here is an interview with Sir Mark Borrington – Grand Master of The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar and he explains the organisation and the work…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Bernard of Clairvaux, Clairvaux, commandery, Council of Troyes, god, grand master, Hugues, Hugues de Payens, jerusalem, Knight Templar, Templar, UNICEF
The 13th Warrior is a movie based on a book by Michael Crichton that takes you back to the Dark Ages. It got a terrible critical reception on release.
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 13th Warrior, allah, Antonio Banderas, Eaters of the Dead, god, Islam, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, Omar Sharif, Viking, Warrior, Wendol, Westworld
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of several fiery queens in the medieval period. Far from being wilting wallflowers, many female monarchs wielded real power. They did this in the face of men who felt women should know their place. But…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: BBC, eleanor, Eleanor of Aquitaine, england, france, god, Henry II of England, Louis VII of France, queens, richard, she-wolves, Templar
There is a growing belief in exorcism in the US and Europe. The casting out of devils is coming back into vogue. It’s something our ancestors would have understood. Evil spirits were all around them waiting to make them sick,…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: angels, buried, casting, changeling, channel, death, defy, demon, devil, discovery, evil, exorcism, exorcist, fairy, Four, god, hell, history, holy, knight, Knightfall, lucifer, magic, medieval, necromancy, nick, old, out, priest, Robinson, satan, Templar, Tony, witch
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