Knights Templar

Published: February 4, 2008, 11:58 pm

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The Knights of the Templar have been the subjects of books and movies in recent years, but what do really know of this secret society? The Crusades, The Wars of the Cross, occurred over 200 bloody years of religious persecution. The Knights Templar rose to celebrity status, gaining the blessing of the Catholic Church along with wealth and power. The First Crusade of 1096, called upon common Christians to fight and gain notoriety as knights. The medieval Catholic Church offered an indulgence as incentive to fight, wiping criminal pasts from all records. The Knights were believed to be a group of soldiers who offered their services to protect Christians traveling to Jerusalem although scholars are now debating the origin of the Knights. The Templars made their headquarters in the biblical Temple of Soloman. In 1867 a British archeological team found underground tunnels and evidence that the Templars had used or excavated the tunnels. It was rumored the Templars possessed

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