Quest For The True Cross is a Templar adventure novel by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: adventure, amazon, author, barnes, book, buried, crime, death, Knightfall, middle ages, murder, mystery, noble, novel, Pathros, publish, saracen, Templar, templars, today, True Cross, Waterstones, William, william de mandeville
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…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Aztec, BBC, catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, christianity, Gael García Bernal, killing, mexico, murder, saint, Santa Muerte, Sonora
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…
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Meet Sir William de Mandeville – a Templar hero
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: adventure, book, Cressing, cross, england, essex, Lisbon, Mandeville, murder, novel, Outremer, portugal, quest, siege, Templar, Temple, thriller, true, william de mandeville
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….
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Acre, crusade, france, Islam, joinville, louis, mamlukes, Medieval, murder, prostitution, Vitry
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
Paganism lingered in Europe way into the Middle Ages though eventually the Catholic church suppressed it with violence
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Army of Valhalla, battle, byzantine, constantine, crusade, empire, Greek, ice, Iron Lord, Jupiter, knights, Lithuania, murder, non-belief, pagan, paganism, philosophy, Poland, roman, russia, Templar, Teutonic, Teutonic knights, Theodosius, war, Wend, wicca, Wiccan
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
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 1994, Canada, De Mambro, deaths, Di Mambro, Jouret, murder, Order of the Solar Temple, solar, spiritual, suicide, switzerland, Templar, Temple
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