There wasn’t just one crusade but multiple crusades in medieval Europe from modern Spain all the way up to Russia as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, Albigensian, armor, armour, Baltics, battle, Cathar, constantinople, crusade, crusades, Cyprus, Dandolo, doge, fourth, heresy, Holy Land, Iberian, indulgence, innocent, knight, knights, Medieval, Moors, pagan, papal, plenary, pope, Templar, Teutonic, Venice
The Knights Hospitaller were once based near Alexandra Palace in north London according to a Victorian source
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Alexandra, Alexandra Palace, Ally Pally, christian, cure, dairy, farm, Haringey, hospitaller, knight, knights, London, miracle, miraculous, Mossy, Muswell Hill, north London, nuns, pagan, sacred, Saint John, St John, Templar, well, Wood Green
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at Hugh de Payens – founder of the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbey, bernard, Burgundy, Champagne, cistercian, Clairvaux, first, Grand, Hugh, jerusalem, knight, Master, Order, paen, pagan, payens, payns, Templar, Troyes
Last month I was in Rome and one theme of my trip was looking at pagan temples of the Roman period that were then converted into Christian churches during the Middle Ages. Here we see how the Temple to Faustina…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: antoninus, catholic, church, faustina, forum, god, heresy, lorenzo, miranda, mystic, pagan, pius, Religion and Spirituality, san, Temple
I was in Rome last month and saw evidence of pagan temples converted into Christian churches – either being converted for new use or rebuilt using materials from the old temple. One of the most magnificent Roman buildings in Rome…
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One pointless fact after another about Easter in a top ten of Tony McMahon’s Easter Pointless Facts on the Knight Templar blog
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Category: Templar News
Tags: alexandria, Easter, egg, equinox, food, Gregorian calendar, jesus, Mary Magdalene, medieval, one, pagan, Paschal Full Moon, Passover, pointless, rabbit, Roman Empire, sun, Templar
The Knights Templar were accused of being too close to Islam and they certainly seem to have shown tolerance towards Muslims
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Category: Templar History
Tags: al aqsa, allah, crusade, enemies, friends, heresy, history, History Channel, Islam, israel, jacob's ford, jihad, knights, masjid, mosque, muslim, pagan, Palestine, ritual, Templar, templars, tolerance, war
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
Christian converts from Judaism and Islam may have hoped to avoid the Spanish Inquisition but the 1506 Lisbon massacre proved otherwise
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baptism, bishop, Catholic, conversion, convert, death, execution, forced, history, infidel, Inquisition, Islam, jews, Lisbon, Manuel, massacre, Muslims, pagan, persecution, pope, revert, Sao Domingos
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how the lives of Christian saints were often based on pagan heroes and deities worshipped for centuries before
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Category: Templar History
Tags: alexandria, Barlaam, Buddha, catherine, Catherine Wheel, Catholic, christian, Cyril of Alexandria, deities, egypt, firework, heroes, Hypatia, India, Josaphat, Katherine, Knight Templar, middle ages, pagan, saints, saladin, Templar, Thomas
