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: Templar History
Tags: Archbishop, Archbishop of Canterbury, canterbury, Canterbury Tale, Catholic, england, henry, middle ages, norman, plantagenat, Thomas, thomas becket
These days, it’s commonly assumed that martyrdom for religious reasons is a feature of the radical end of Islam but it was once very much part of Christianity. I found one example in a Portuguese church of Franciscan friars who…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: assisi, crusade, egypt, francis, franciscan, friar, knight, louis, marrakesh, martyr, Morocco, muslim, porto, saint, sultan, Templar, Thomas
There are a whole load of other gospels apart from the four we know and they give a very different account of Jesus
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: apocrypha, Bart, bart ehrman, bible, body, Catholic, christianity, copt, crucifixion, death, ebionites, Ehrman, Essenes, faith, flesh, gospel, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Thomas, jesus, marcionites, Mary Magdalene, Peter, resurrection, Thomas
How Saint James became the patron saint of crusaders and his shrine at Santiago de Compostela
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Category: Templar History
Tags: apostle, Arimathea, Catholic, christianity, Compostela, france, Galicia, glastonbury, Iberia, India, James, Joseph, knight, Knightfall, Magdalene, Mary, Medieval, relic, saint, Santiago, Templar, Thomas
