Dan Jones

The Templars

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    This Frenchman’s name was Hugh of Payns.
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    Byzantine princess and biographer Anna Komnene frequently expressed in her writings a marked distaste for the idea of Christian clerics having any involvement in maiming or killing people
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    The Knights of the Temple were founded in Jerusalem in 1119 and officially recognized at some point between 14 January and 13 September of the year 1120.
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    Beyond the Temple Mount, on the other side of Jerusalem’s eastern wall, lay a cemetery, and beyond that Gethsemane, where Christ had prayed with his disciples, and where he was betrayed by Judas on the night of his arrest.
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    ‘Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give the glory, for your steadfast love and faithfulness.’
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    James of Molay, who was burned to death in Paris in 1314, his final words a promise that God would have revenge on the order’s behalf.
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    The end came so suddenly and so violently that it only added to the Templar legend.
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    The prayers that the order’s many non-fighting brothers said in their religious houses across Europe were just as important as the sacrifices Templar knights and sergeants made on the battlefield, and both were of the utmost importance in seeking heavenly salvation for all Christians.
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    The Templars were founded in 1119 on the principles of chastity, obedience and poverty
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    Think not that I am come to send peace on earth:

    I came not to send peace, but a sword.

    Matthew 10:34
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