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88Visiting England - English places associated with the Knights Templar
Everyone loved the Templars, from the Pope downwards, and their rise was spectacular. Their fall 200 years later was equally dramatic, and the Papacy was forced by the French King into dissolving them. This article looks at place in England where Templar remains survive and can be seen today.
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77The Knights Templar: their London headquarters today
The Knights Templar remain fascinating to this day. And in London, you can still visit the Templars' New Temple, and see the Temple Church they built. It's still a fully-functioning parish church, and open to visitors. I am a member of Middle Temple, and therefore a parishoner of Temple Church. It's an absolutely fascinating place.
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77Secrets of the Knights Templar
In 1118, King Baldwin II receives an offer of assistance from a Crusader monk, Hugues de Payens, who wants to protect pilgrims traveling to the Holy Places (Holy Land). Hugues, along with eight other...
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72King Arthur and the Holy Grail Bloodline
We have all read or seen different versions of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. My personnal favorites are Excaliber and King Arthur the most recent of Hollywood productions. Nothing beats the...
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72Friday the 13th: Myth or Fact
Is Friday the 13th an evil, unlucky day? How did this folklore start? How it all started. During the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1096, in the middle ages, a group of knights founded the Poor...
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77Visiting Bruges-la-Morte, a medieval ghost city
One of those many timeless carriages, which are available to tourists, stopped for me. The coachman looked very, very old... but he offered me kindly a free ride. 'Sir,' I said, 'you who drives day and...
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73The Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet who was the first to write about the Grail, but what is the Grail... and where can the Grail be? Some believe the Grail is the Holy Blood of Christ, or his royal bloodline... and this Holy Blood was brought to Bruges, by the Templars.
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75Nostradamus and the Lost Templar Treasure
Here is all the information you need, right out of the so-called prophecies of Nostradamus that are in reality a code, to start a true treasure hunt and find the Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar somewhere in the realms of the abbey of Orval, in Belgium.
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66The ark of the covenant
The burning question about one of the most revered religious relics in all the world is still a mystery. The ark of the covenant, the box reported to have held the ten commandments from god given to Moses on...
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89The Holy Sepulchre of Bruges-la-Morte
Visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Bruges-La-Morte, the Venice of the North, is a strange and morbid experience. Not only because the Holy Grave is to be found here, or a statue of the dead Christ,...
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