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Templar liturgy and pastoral work in the Middle Ages

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" Templar assets, including liturgical books, instruments and garments, but also all other writings which the Templars had possessed or...

Templar provincial chapters in medieval times

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Every year the Templars of each Western province met in chapter, le chapitre provincial , to pay their dues, report on their houses and judg...

Where was the first Templar Church on Temple Mount?

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In about 1120 King Baldwin II decided to lend his palace at what now is called the Al-Acsa Mosque, temporarily to the juvenil Templar Order...

Nine Templar founders - fact or fiction?

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One of the myths that the Templars told about their own beginning was that for the first nine years there were only nine knights. This is fi...

Underground cisterns at Temple Mount, Jerusalem

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The immense consumption of water at the Temple sanctuary required the development of a complex water system on the elevated Temple Mount. Ho...

Climate in the Levant during Crusader times

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How was the climate in the Levant during Crusader times? The many chronicals and travel reports shed some light on this.

The Templar Rule and Easter

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The 77 paragraphs of the original Primitive Rule (1129-1131) hold many details on how the Knights Templars should behave during and between ...

The Templar missal of Modena

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At the archives of the cathedral of Modena a precious liturgical code is preserved. According to some authors, the medieval code would co...

Origin, layout and access of the Templar stables under Temple Mount, Jerusalem

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Under the southeastern part of the Haram al-Sharif esplanade (Temple Mount) is a vast subterranean complex that is often indicated as King S...