The murder of Thomas Becket was celebrated on the fifth day of Christmas to remember his killing in the year 1170 as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 29 December, A Becket, Archbishop, becket, beckett, book, canterbury, cathedral, Christmas, Film, Henry VIII, movie, murder, pilgrims, play, Richard Burton, saint, T S Elliot, Templar, thomas becket, tomb
Who on earth would steal the head of a crusader – dead for many centuries? A disrespectful idiot is who! Let me tell you the story… Back in 1976, aged 12, I was taken to see the mummified body of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 2019, church, corpse, crusader, Dublin, head, ireland, Medieval, michan, police, robbed, saint, skeleton, skull, stolen, Templar, theft
This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular Templar blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship
The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: altar, assassin, assassination, becket, beckett, canterbury, death, FitzUrse, henry, ireland, jerusalem, John, killed, knight, lionheart, mcmahon, Medieval, money, murder, richard, saint, Templar, Thomas, thomas a becket, treasure, veneration
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bethlehem, birth, bishop, boy, Christmas, crib, jesus, king, knight, Knightfall, manger, medieval, mummer, mumming, Nicholas, peacock, queen, saint, Templar, wassail, wassailing, Yule
Catholic churches all over Europe are graced with sacred statues of Christ, the Virgin Mary and the many, many saints. But when these churches are closed or renovated, we see these statues in a whole new light. Shorn of their…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Al-usbuna, blood, body, cathedral, catholic, church, clothes, faith, feet, hair, hands, head, idol, jesus, knight, Lisboa, Lisbon, mannequin, miracle, naked, procession, puppet, saint, sin, Soumrak templářů, statue, Templar, worship
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, hotspot, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, medieval, quest, Quest for the True Cross, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, tony mcmahon, True Cross, Witham
I was in Italy in August and September this year and visited many medieval sites – in the next few blog posts, I’ll give you some highlights. But first – let’s meet a very odd medieval saint – Catherine of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: All Saints Day, black death, bowl, breast, cancer, catherine, Catherine Wheel, ecstatic, Grail, italy, jesus, marriage, pandemic, pus, quest, ring, saint, Siena, Templar, vision
On the blog, I’ve shown you examples of Roman buildings reused in the medieval period – in Rome and York for example. But Roman statues were also refashioned. Sometimes in rather peculiar ways. Medieval statue in Venice is Roman stuff…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Amasea, Dandolo, doge, medieval, patron, roman, saint, Templar, Theodore, Venetian, Venice
