This week, in the English wintry sun, I visited a church packed with history – Waltham Abbey. It’s located in the county of Essex, just 15 minutes by train out of London. The church is famous for including the grave…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbey, altar, Augustinian, burial, canon, Canute, chancel, church, cloister, cross, Denny, dissolution, eleanor, england, essex, flint, grave, Harold, Hastings, Henry II, Holy Cross, monasteries, monastery, Montacute, nave, norman, priest, priory, Reformation, Saxon, site, somerset, Templar, tomb, Tovi, Viking, Waltham
So – where was Jesus really crucified? An Easter mystery!
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bible, catholic, cross, crucifixion, Easter, garden, holy, jerusalem, jesus, mystery, orthodox, place, resurrection, roman, sepulchre, site, Templar, tomb, walls, worship
During the Second World War a German bomb severely damaged the Templar church in London chipping the tombs of Templars
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Blitz, bomb, christian, church, Da Vinci Code, damage, faith, grave, hitler, knight, law, legal, London, Mandeville, medieval, nazi, occult, Templar, Temple, tomb
The bodies of many famous Kings of England have disappeared over the centuries and never been found again
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Category: Templar History
Tags: angevin, Anjou, bad, Beauclerc, Blois, burial, buried, Conqueror, crusade, crusades, Earth, Edward, Edward I, emperor, england, Follett, Fontevraud Abbey, france, Gloucester Cathedral, good, grave, heart, henry, Henry II, henry III, history, John, Ken, king, Knightfall, Knights Templar, lionheart, location, longshanks, Matilda, Pillars, pillars of the earth, Plantagenet, Protestant Reformation, queen, Richard I, Rufus, saladin, Stephen, tomb, westminster abbey
During the crusades, there were numerous plans to try and invade Mecca and Medina to dig up the Prophet Mohammed and despoil the holy places. The view of Templars and all crusaders was that Islam had been a terrible heresy, a…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Al-Masjid al-Nabawi, destroyed, Hajj, hotel, Islam, Kingdom of Heaven, Mecca, Medina, Mohammed, Muhammad, muslim, Ottoman Empire, Prophet, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, tomb, Wahabbi
Why is the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem so sacred to Christians and what was its inspiration for the Knights Templar? That was what I set out to discover on a visit to the holy city a few…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Al-Hakim, buried, Catholic, channel, constantine, copt, Coptic, crucifixion, crusader, Crypt, discovery, Dome, Ethiopian, Geographic, Greek, history, holy, Holy Sepulchre, israel, jerusalem, jesus, Knightfall, knights, National, orthodox, seal, sepulchre, Syrian, Templar, tomb
Some you have not seen yet!
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cross, crusader, death, died, Easter, Holy Sepulchre, jerusalem, jesus, Knightfall, knights, Templar, tomb
What was the power behind saints’ relics in the Middle Ages?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: canonised, Catholic, church, Eparchius, faith, france, fraud, Gregory, healing, holy, John the Baptist, knights, miracle, monks, power, relics, saint, Saint Jean, Saint Martin, Templar, tomb, Tours
