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
No event shook late twelfth century England as much as the cold-blooded murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in his own cathedral. The knights who plunged their swords in to him as he clutched at his altar believed…
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Category: Christianity
Tags: Archbishop, Archbishop of Canterbury, canterbury, Canterbury Tale, Catholic, england, henry, middle ages, norman, plantagenat, Thomas, thomas becket
I was in Porto, Portugal a few years back in the church of Saint Francis when I saw a gruesome image of a Saracen beheading a Franciscan friar – and another lying on the ground without his head. Couldn’t resist…
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Category: Christianity
Tags: assisi, crusade, egypt, francis, franciscan, friar, knight, louis, marrakesh, martyr, Morocco, muslim, porto, saint, sultan, Templar, Thomas
For fifteen hundred years, Christians have grown used to the idea of just Four Gospels. But these are the magic four that the early Church decided, for a variety of reasons, were acceptable to the faithful. Not that the faithful…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: apocrypha, bart ehrman, bible, catholic, christianity, copt, ebionites, faith, gospel, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Thomas, jesus, marcionites, Mary Magdalene, Peter, Thomas
How Saint James became the patron saint of crusaders
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Category: Catholic
Tags: apostle, Arimathea, Catholic, christianity, Compostela, france, Galicia, glastonbury, Iberia, India, James, Joseph, knight, Knightfall, Magdalene, Mary, Medieval, relic, saint, Santiago, Templar, Thomas
