Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates how the leprosy pandemic terrified the medieval world and led to victims being excluded from mainstream society
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Category: Templar History
Tags: attitude, Baldwin, buried, catholic, church, Coronavirus, Covid, Disease, fear, Hansens, history, horror, jerusalem, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, leper, leprosy, medicine, medieval, mystery, pandemic, plague, religion, treatment, victim
Medieval Easter was way more important than Easter is today. Two reasons. One was the celebration of the resurrection of Christ and the other was the rebirth of the countryside. In feudal rural societies – never far from starvation –…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, christ, crucifixion, Easter, faith, jesus, Latin, medieval, middle ages, religion, risen, Templar, Whitsun
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that Jesus worked as a miner in England and that his uncle Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to Somerset
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: avalon, england, faith, glastonbury, Holy Grail, jesus, Joseph, joseph of arimathea, king arthur, Knightfall, knights, miner, monks, mystery, Priddy, quest, religion, secret, somerset, Templar, treasure, tunnel
Following my post on the Templar stronghold of Tomar in Portugal – here is a video imagining what Tomar would have been like at the height of a Templar power. Enjoy!
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Crusades began with the senseless massacre of Jewish people in Europe identified by mobs as being infidels like the Saracens
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, Archbishop, crusade, culture, faith, First Crusade, germany, history, Holy Land, Islam, jew, Jewish population, jews, judaism, Mainz, medieval, Moses, religion
The Catholic church is full of strange saints with very odd stories as Templar expert Tony McMahon discovers with a bit of digging around
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, archaeology, assisi, behead, catholic, diocletian, eyes, faith, francis, head, history, Islam, johannite, John, Lucy, martyr, religion, saint denis, saints, Strange, Templar
Here’s a Knights Templar fact you never knew about the movie Braveheart. In one of the Scottish hero’s biggest military clashes – two Knight Templar grand masters were killed! Mel Gibson missed the chance to depict a truly epic scene…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Bannockburn, battle, Battle of Falkirk, braveheart, Brian Le Jay, death, england, English Channel, Ivanhoe, knight, mel gibson, novel, religion, Scotland, Scott, sinclair, Templar, temple newsam, Victorian, Walter Scott, William Wallace
The Knights Templar were rounded up in Yorkshire a year after the rest of Europe but after resisting the Pope, the English county came into line
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arrest, Edward I, Edward II, execution, Knightfall, knights, Leeds, Newsam, religion, Scotland, Templar, Temple, torture, Yorkshire
The Roman historian Eusebius claims that a group of Desposyni – the descendants of Christ – met the Emperor Domitian as Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Baignet, baptist, bloodline, Catholic, christ, Da Vinci Code, desposyni, faith, Grail, holy, Leigh, Lincoln, Mary Magdalene, priory, religion, Rex Deus, sion
The Templars are often accused of being gay or more particularly sodomites but this may have been a propaganda slur
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Anal sex, Catholic, Catholic Church, confess, equality, faith, gay, heresy, homosexual, king, Knight Templar, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, London, man, marriage, Medieval, men, middle ages, Philip, queer, religion, Roman Empire, sentence, sodomy, Templar, torture, trial, woman
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