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
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates how the leprosy pandemic terrified the medieval world and led to victims being excluded from mainstream society
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Category: Templar History
Tags: attitude, Baldwin, buried, catholic, church, Coronavirus, Covid, Disease, fear, Hansens, history, horror, jerusalem, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, leper, leprosy, medicine, medieval, mystery, pandemic, plague, religion, treatment, victim
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
Who murdered the Knights Templar and what was the motive? Tony McMahon plays a medieval game of Cluedo to find the answers to this mystery
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Al-Aqsa Mosque, Battle of Al-Mansurah, buried, Cathars, Cluedo, clues, De Nogaret, death, detective, france, hidden, Holy Land, horror, hospitaller, Hospitallers, Knight Templar, Knightfall, knights, Knights Hospitaller, La Rochelle, murder, murdered, mystery, Philip IV of France, Phillippe the Bel, Scotland, sinclair, Templar, templars, tony mcmahon, torture, treasure
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