Tony McMahon looks at five movies that feature the Knights Templar in their plots from 1972 to the present day
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 1972, blood, buried, Danish, demon, Denmark, devil, Dolph Lundgren, evil, fantasy, ghost, Gregoire, Holy Grail, horror, knight, Knightfall, lost, medieval, Minion, new york, night, revenant, revenge, Templar, Tombs of the Blind Dead, treasure
The horror of leprosy in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: attitude, Baldwin, buried, Catholic, church, Disease, fear, history, horror, jerusalem, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, leper, Medieval, mystery, religion, treatment
Pumpkins, trick or treat and witch costumes. We all know about modern Halloween – but how might a Templar knight have celebrated Halloween hundreds of years ago? Back in the early Middle Ages, the day we now call Halloween was…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: All Saints, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Catholic Church, Celt, christian, death, evil, Halloween, Holiday, horror, medieval, middle ages, origin, Samhain, Trick or Treat
How children died in medieval England
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 14th century, buried, children, Coroner, dead, death, drown, drowning, england, England in the Middle Ages, evil, fatal, History Channel, horror, Knightfall, London Bridge, medieval, middle ages, Newgate
Bernard of Clairvaux did not approve of ornamentation in churches or gaudy painting but defended simplicity
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Benedictine, bernard, bible, church, cistercian, Clairvaux, death, face, gargoyle, goth, gothic, grin, horror, masons, monster, Templar
