Sacred statues without hair and clothes
Pictured here is Jesus Christ with the bloodied wounds from his crown of thorns but the crown, his hair and robes have gone.
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Templar quest in Portugal 2017 – Lisbon
Portugal and Spain have a glorious Knight Templar past and Tony McMahon investigates the crusades that took place in western Europe in the Middle Ages
August 2017 – my Templar quest in Portugal!
The Templar Knight blog loves to visit Portugal every year and see the Templar stronghold of Tomar and visit the Viagem Medieval in Santa Maria da Feira
Lisbon – from a Muslim to a Christian city
The conquest of Lisbon in the Crusades from its Muslim rulers was achieved by diverting a huge crusader army from all over Europe
Mother hated son – but both loved the Templars!
Teresa of Leon and her son Afonso of Portugal loved the Knights Templar but hated each other with a vengeance as Tony McMahon discovers
Medieval Porto in northern Portugal
The city of Porto in Portugal has an incredible medieval history linked to the Crusades as Tony McMahon discovers
Martim Moniz – Portuguese crusader hero – an interview with him…
Martim Moniz was a Portuguese crusader who was famously crushed to death placing his body into a castle gateway to keep it open.
Inquisition hunts down Christian converts
Christian converts from Judaism and Islam may have hoped to avoid the Spanish Inquisition but the 1506 Lisbon massacre proved otherwise as Tony McMahon reports
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