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Bento XVI abre a ?casa? para receber islâmicos
2007-11-29 16:39:00 Venham ao Vaticano dialogar com Bento XVI. Este foi o apelo lançado pelo Papa, por interposta pessoa, o cardeal Tarcisio Bertone, secretário de Estado, a altos dignitários muçulmanos que pugnam pelo entendimento entre islâmicos e cristãos. Um “grupo restrito”, este, composto por 138 sunitas e xiitas. O Sumo Pontífice fê-lo depois de receber uma carta, juntamente ... More About: News , Religion , Casa , Para
Exonerate the Knights Templar
2007-11-28 01:48:00 The Templar Globe doesn’t usually associate with petitions, but we just received this appeal from our friend Brian Kannard and decided to let him speak to you directly. _________________________________________ __ I have posted the following on Grail Seekers. Ever since I returned from Paris, I felt that I had to do something to help right the wrongs of the ... More About: News , Articles , Knights , Opinion , Knights Templar
Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, died on November 8th, aged 95
2007-11-27 15:00:00 ?HE’S not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.? In 1953, four years after Linda Loman’s famous soliloquy in Arthur Miller’s ?Death of a Salesman?, the Rev Prebendary Chad Varah pioneered a wonderfully simple and effective way of ... More About: News , Articles , Charity , Founder , Opinion
Ark Of The Covenant - Kenyans Now Claim Custody Of The Ark Of The Covenant
2007-11-26 01:46:00 The original chest of the Ark of the Covenant is in Kenya, we can now authoritatively confirm. The chest said to contain the ten commandments that God handed over to Moses as stipulated in the book of Exodus 25; 6 - 10 has been in Kenya since the year 1210 AD. In a paid up advertisement ... More About: News , Articles , Opinion , Custody
Umberto Eco: God isn?t big enough for some people
2007-11-24 00:59:00 We are now approaching the critical time of the year for shops and supermarkets: the month before Christmas is the four weeks when stores of all kinds sell their products fastest. Father Christmas means one thing to children: presents. He has no connection with the original St Nicholas, who performed a miracle in providing dowries ... More About: Religion , People , Articles , Opinion , Quotes
100,000 Visitors!
2007-11-24 00:53:00 Dear friends, it seems that it was just yesterday that we crossed over the 50,000 viewers target. Well, today we have proudly crossed the 100,000 mark with almost half of them in the last two months alone. As you can see from the statistics graphic above, the Templar Globe has been growing steadily since it’s ... More About: News , Articles , Visitors
Histórias de gente com alma e lugares de verdade
2007-11-22 13:42:00 ?Hoje a verdade é um cartucho vazio?. A afirmação é do historiador e jurista José Hermano Saraiva, que esteve esta semana em Pombal a gravar uma edição para o programa ?A Alma e a Gente?, exibido na RTP2. Louriçal, Pombal e Abiul foram os lugares onde o famoso professor esteve para mostrar que ?a história ... More About: News , Portugal , Opinion , Interview
Vatican, Templars and Hospitallers
2007-11-21 13:34:00 I have recently accessed the article entitled Vatican Supports Maltese Author [our own reference here: Vatican proves Maltese author correct], which I found sufficiently intriguing to Google the book mentioned, namely Of Craft And Honour And A Temp lar’s Chronicles, by George Gregory Buttigieg. The book’s website (www.ofcraftandhonour.com/) turned up among other information. Accessing this site, I reconfirmed ... More About: News , Books , Opinion
Manuscritos e desenhos de Da Vinci em arquivo digital
2007-11-20 01:00:00 Os manuscritos e desenhos originais de Leonardo da Vinci podem ser consultados, pela primeira vez, através de um arquivo digital, o E-Leo, desenvolvido pela Biblioteca Leonardiana e que foi apresentado este ano. O arquivo ajudar a compreender e a decifrar as complicadas notas de Leonardo da Vinci e pequenos desenhos graças a um avançado programa informático, ... More About: Digital , Da Vinci , Crito
Start with hero, toss in grail
2007-11-19 01:54:00 To late mythologist Joseph Campbell, there has only been one story ever told. Every myth and legend involves identical themes, and every hero undertakes the same basic journey. If he’s to be believed, there’s no essential distinction between the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, a computer-animated adaptation of which opens today, and, say, Dukes of Hazzard. ... More About: News , Articles , Start , Hero , Holy Grail
UN panel votes to halt executions
2007-11-16 01:59:00 A committee of the UN General Assembly has voted for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. A total of 99 countries voted for a suspension of capital punishment worldwide, while 52 voted against and 33 abstained. Although the vote is not legally binding, human rights groups say it is a significant demonstration of worldwide ... More About: News , Articles , Panel , Executions , Votes
Defining the Middle Ages - 3
2007-11-15 01:06:00 Part 6: An Age of Ages Although in some languages the Middle Ages are labeled in the singular (it’s le moyen age in French and das mittlere Alter in German), it is difficult to think of the era as anything other than ages plural. This is in part because of the numerous subjects encompassed by this ... More About: Articles
Defining the Middle Ages - 2
2007-11-14 01:03:00 Part 4: Christendom Throughout the medieval era only one institution came close to uniting all of Europe, though it was not so much a political empire as a spiritual one. That union was attempted by the Catholic Church, and the geopolitical entity it influenced was known as “Christendom.” While the exact extent of the Church’s political power ... More About: Articles , Middle , Ages
Defining the Middle Ages - 1
2007-11-13 01:16:00 Recently it was brought to my attention an interesting text by Portuguese journalist and researcher António Carlos de Carvalho about the Templars in which his assessment of the Middle Ages period was severely criticized. Antonio, in a passage o his text, said that the end of the Middle Ages could be defined with the persecution ... More About: Articles
Le retour en grâce des Templiers
2007-11-12 01:58:00 La nouvelle de la publication d?un nouveau document relatif au procès des Temp liers met tous les médias en émoi. Le scoop serait le suivant : en août 1308, le pape Clément V avait absous de leurs crimes cinq dignitaires de cet ordre. Parmi eux, le grand maître Jacques de Molay, qui finit sur le bûcher ... More About: News , Religion , Articles , Opinion
Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci?s ?Last Supper?
2007-11-09 01:17:00 It’s a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper,” raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall ... More About: News , Music , Articles , Italy
Vatican proves Maltese author correct
2007-11-08 01:52:00 The recent discovery by Barbara Frale that in 1308 Pope Clement V secretly absolved the last Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay, and the rest of the leadership of the Knights Templar, from charges brought against them by the Medieval Inquisition was barely reported in Malta but it proved the theory expounded in 2006 by ... More About: News , Religion , Books , Articles , Opinion
Islam y razón: una posibilidad de diálogo
2007-11-07 01:21:00 Ciento treinta y ocho líderes musulmanes han escrito una carta dirigida al Papa y a los responsables de las principales comunidades cristianas en el mundo bajo el título “Una palabra común entre nosotros y vosotros”, a propósito del discurso de Benedicto XVI el pasado año en Ratisbona. Se abre así una posibilidad de diálogo entre ... More About: News , Religion , Islam , Articles , Opinion
International Investiture in Italy
2007-11-06 01:06:00 For the first time in Italy in the last 700 years and 889 years since of the foundation of the Order, the International Chapter of Investiture of the Order of the Temple of Jerusalem will meet in the Basilica of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples, Italy. The Order will be represented by a Spanish delegation with H.E. Fr+ ManuelQuintnilla, ...
Most Popular Posts
2007-11-05 01:41:00 Dear readers, The Templar Globe is growing even more. In the 31 days of October we’ve had more readers than in the first year of publication altogether! That is a big push. And all thanks to our devoted readers, the members of the Order and other sites that have consistently linked to our articles. We also ... More About: English , Popular , Posts , Pula
My Bedroom Window Over Jerusalem VI - You Will Search my Tomb
2007-11-02 01:33:00 The second of November is the All Souls Day. Catholics, and some other Christian communities, shall be commemorating the dead. The fact that this has been commemorated since long time, it?s unsurprising that non Catholics alike would be conscious of this day to remember their beloved ones. In fact, in matters as this there is little ... More About: Religion , Articles , Spirituality , Jerusalem , Opinion
Tracking Down the Tale of the Knights Templar
2007-11-01 01:41:00 The story has it all: Vatican intrigue, corruption, medieval castles, secret knights, papal enquiries, and royal conspiracies. But it is not fiction. More than 5 meters of recovered parchments reveal the actual account of one of the most important trials of the Middle Ages: The Processus Contra Templarios (Latin for “Trial Against the Templars”). The Knights Templar was ... More About: News , Religion , Books , Articles
Enough, already! Vatican official says Templars book nothing new - I told y
2007-10-31 01:42:00 It was billed as the Vatican’s effort to “come clean” and reveal secret documents about the mysterious Knights Templar, the medieval crusading order that has inspired ancient legends and modern novels. But after seeing exaggerated press reports for two weeks, Bishop Sergio Pagano apparently had had enough. “I’ve read in the papers that this is about discoveries. ... More About: News , Religion , Books , Articles , Opinion
Da Vinci Coded: Masterpiece Goes Online in High-Def
2007-10-30 01:03:00 Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece “The Last Supper” has not aged well. After centuries of degradation, the painting can now be seen by only a handful of viewers at a time in an effort to hide it from outside pollutants. Now, officials have put a 16-billion pixel image of the painting online for anyone to see. ... More About: News , Italy , Online , High , Da Vinci
Javier Sierra: «Los templarios conocían América antes de Colón»
2007-10-29 01:57:00 Antes que autor de ficción de éxito -su novela ‘La cena secreta’ (2004) ha sido un ‘bestseller’ mundial-, Javier Sierra (Teruel, 1971) se dedicó al periodismo paranormal y fue considerado el ‘niño prodigio de la ufología española’. Redactor de revistas como ‘Año Cero’ y ‘Más Allá’, que llegó a dirigir, escribió centenares de artículos sobre ... More About: News , Books , Opinion , Interview
The Vatican and the Knights Templar
2007-10-26 02:39:00 The reality of the saga of the Knights Templar is almost as amazing as the myths that embellish it. On Thursday the Vatican added another colorful chapter by it publishing a long-misplaced, 699-year-old papal report on the medieval holy warriors. Vatican publisher Scrinium offers 799 copies (the 800th will go to the Pope), at $8,375 ... More About: News , Religion , Books , Articles
The Post editorial board: The truth about the Templars
2007-10-25 02:07:00 Last week, the Vatican announced that it will publish an expensive limited edition of the proceedings of the 1308 papal trial of the Knights Templar, the medieval crusading order of warrior-monks that for two centuries was both the most dreaded military force in the Western world and a staggeringly powerful corporation operating largely independent of ... More About: News , Truth , Articles , Opinion , Crusades
Especial viajes: Ponferrada, ?la ciudad de los templarios?
2007-10-24 02:40:00 Ponferrada, la capital de El Bierzo, se levanta en la confluencia de los ríos Sil y Boeza, en la provincia de León. El camino jacobeo fue fundamental para la ciudad e incluso de ahí deriva su nombre, según los historiadores. Los escritos señalan que la construcción de un puente en el siglo XI sobre el ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Spain , Temp
En busca de la huella de los templarios en la Corona de Aragón
2007-10-23 14:51:00 Investigadores de la historia y del patrimonio se reunirán la semana que viene en Monzón para poner al día los conocimientos sobre la presencia de esta Orden en las encomiendas aragonesas. Los aspectos esotéricos son difíciles de rastrear en los archivos. Por segundo año consecutivo, Monzón va a ser sede de las Jornadas sobre la Orden ... More About: News , Events , Spain , Corona , Busca
In the Footsteps of the Crusaders
More articles from this author:2007-10-22 14:31:00 The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem , the name by which the Crusaders ’ rule over the Holy Land is commonly known, lasted from 1099, when the Crusaders ”rescued Jerusalem from the yoke of the infidel,” as one contemporary account put it, to 1291, when the city of Acre was retaken by the Moslems. At its zenith the ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Crusades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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