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
Tony McMahon investigates the inconsistencies in the Nativity Story that forms the basis of our traditional Christmas narrative
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Category: Templar History
Tags: birth, christ, christianity, donkey, Early Christianity, flock, Gabriel, God the Father, HolySpirit, Jesu, kings, Magi, Mary, Nativity story, oxen, shepherds, Theotokos
The link between the Knights Templar and the Three Wise Men with claims they were all part of an ancient priesthood stretching back to the Solomon era priest Melchizedek
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Caspar, christ, Christmas, Epiphany, frankincense, gifts, gold, Helena, Jasper, jesus, John, kings, knights, legend, Magi, manger, Medieval, Melchoir, myrhh, mystery, myth, nativity, Prester, Templar, three, wise
Prester John was a king who never existed and yet the crusaders and Knights Templar believed he would come to their rescue in the Holy Land
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Africa, Alexiad, Alexiod, Barbarossa, byzantine, christ, Comnenus, El Dorado, ethiopia, India, jerusalem, John, Komnenus, Magi, middle east, Order, portugal, Portuguese, Prester, Prester John, Templar
The role that bishop called Adam of Orleton had in accusing the Knights Templar of sodomy and then King Edward II
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Adam, avignon, Edward II, gay, knight, lgbt, Magi, medieval, murder, Orleton, papacy, sodomy, Templar, trial
