Richard Dyson
ASIN: B00T4PT8Y6
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 24
The Knights Templar Who Are They?
Most mysterious secret society in history finally resolved
The secret organization, mysterious society or humanitarian monastic order? For almost 800 years the Knights Templar is followed by the hype which is not connected to any similar knighthood. What is the truth? This is the question that follows historians, theologians, as well as curious people for generations. Have they really been the guardians of the Holy Grail, or just a group of bandits and thieves, whether they were formed by the Pope to be the muscle of the Vatican and was Hugues de Payens a more enigmatic person than we all thought?
Their history began with the Crusades, around the year 1118 and lasted for approximately 200 years. They had significant support from the Roman Catholic Church, which is embodied in the figure of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Although they began as a poor ...