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Templar Devotion of Saint Blaise

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Saint Blaise, a fourth century bishop and physician, appears in Templar chapels, altars and relic lists. A statue of him stands near the ch...

Contemporary Templar images on a medieval shrine?

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Around the shrine of Thomas de Cantilupe, bishop of Hereford, sit fourteen armed men in niches. A tradition calls them Templars, and modern ...

The Templar Banner

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The Templars rode into battle behind a black and white banner that the sources call baucent [piebald] (French beauséant ). It was the rally...

The Hildegarde von Bingen - Bernard de Clairvaux link

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In 1146 or 1147 Hildegarde von Bingen (French Hildegarde de Bingen ), whose visions were still unpublished, wrote to Bernard de Clairvaux, w...

Medieval Templar Libraries - Product of Necessity and Circumstances

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Did the Templars, les Templiers , own libraries? Inventories made after the arrests of 1307 to 1311 list psalters, missals and legendaries i...

Medical care in the Templar Order

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The Knights Templar provided medical care, both for their own brothers as for people from outside the Order. Taking care of medical proble...

Jacques de Molay: the last Templar Grand Master and Mongol warlord?

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The sudden arrest of the Templars (in 1307, TN), the conflicting stories about confessions, and the dramatic deaths by burning, generat...

Secular Templar privileges, powers and immunities in the 12th century

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In 1172 AD Pope Alexander’s famous bull, Omne datum optimum , confirming the previous privileges of the Templars, and conferring upon them a...

Medieval Templar Devotion - a Strong Focus Towards Mary

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" Among the devotional objects mentioned in the inventories (made during the trial investigations 1307-1312, TN) relics and reliquarie...
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