The Templar Knight
Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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The cult of Santa Muerte claims some victims
A growing number of people in Mexico are turning to the worship of Saint Death – a figure who appears to be a combination of Catholic imagery with pre-Columbian beliefs. This blending of religious beliefs is called ‘syncretism’ and is…
Read MoreDealing with the violent bits in the Bible
I was at a christening two years ago when a priest in an Anglican church read a passage from the Old Testament. It was the story of how God’s annointed people, the Israelites, totally destroyed a rival tribe taking no…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Crusade
Victory and Defeat – part III of the BBC series ‘The Crusades‘ aired tonight in the UK. Jerusalem had fallen once more to Islam while three Christian kingdoms – Antioch, Tripoli and (confusingly) Jerusalem – clung on to the coastline….
Read MoreMedieval Cluedo: Who murdered the Knights Templar?
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
Read MorePaganism in Europe at the time of the Templars
Paganism lingered in Europe way into the Middle Ages though eventually the Catholic church suppressed it with violence
Read MoreOrder of the Solar Temple – suicide and murder
The Order of the Solar Temple claimed to be a Knight Templar organisation of sorts but they ended in a mass suicide and suspected murder
Read MoreThe Templars, Sodomy and the Bishop
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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