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Devil?s Bible unique as only few ever explored it
2007-09-27 02:19:00 The Devil ’s Bible , the world’s biggest manuscript now on display in Prague, has an eventful 800-year-long history, accompanied by legends highlighting its emergence and alleged miraculous powers, and it is also unique as a book that only few Czech experts have ever been able to look at. The illuminated Devil’s Bible (Codex Gigas) is of Czech ... More About: News , Books , Unique
Jesus and The Second Coming
2007-09-26 02:43:00 Jesus has been in the news a lot lately, from the controversy over the Gnostic Gospels and The Passion of the Christ, to the books Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code and now with the documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus on the Discovery Channel, Jesus has surpassed Britney Spears in the ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Second Coming
China and the Vatican avoid a standoff over new bishop
2007-09-25 02:10:00 The selection of the Reverend Joseph Li Shan, who is to be installed as the Roman Catholic bishop of Beijing on Friday, was no surprise to those who closely follow religious affairs in China . Li, 42, who rose steadily through a Chinese Catholic clergy that was far reduced by the Cultural Revolution and was slowly ... More About: News , Religion , Vatican , Avoid
Al Qaeda llama a contra-cruzada por Al Andalus: ?Eliminad a España y Franci
2007-09-24 02:35:00 A la tercera Ayman al Zawahiri se explayó. El número dos de Al Qaeda hizo ayer un llamamiento a “limpiar el Magreb musulmán de los hijos de Francia y España”. Sus palabras tendrán, probablemente, un efecto movilizador sobre una franja minoritaria de la juventud magrebí. Fue la tercera vez, desde diciembre pasado, que el lugarteniente ... More About: News , Crusades , Contra , Al-Qaeda
50,000 hits!
2007-09-21 18:13:00 Hey, we just hit the 50,000 hits mark! We have to thank our readers for this huge success. The Templar Globe has been experiencing an amazing increase in the number of daily visitors in the last few months. Our statistics show that we have been almost doubling traffic month on month and that the major part ... More About: Events , Hits
See you next Monday!
2007-09-17 20:26:00 Dear readers, As you may have noticed, I haven’t been able to update our pages since Saturday. That was due to a server error that prevented me to log in. This week I’m off to Madrid to preside over the Magisterial Council meeting and General Assembly of Priors of the Order. This is the most important ... More About: Monday
Temple Mount
2007-09-14 02:10:00 Interesting YouTube clip from the History Channel about the Temple in Jerusalem More About: Video , Opinion , Temple Mount , Mount
Templiers - Trésor et trésors
2007-09-13 02:49:00 Dans les premiers jours d’octobre 1307, ayant sans doute eu vent de quelque chose, le maître du Temp le en Fran ce , Gérard de Villiers, s’enfuit de Paris avec une quarantaine de frères, et l’on ne sait pas ce qu’il lui advint. Il n’en fallut pas plus pour donner naissance à un racontar selon lequel ce personnage ... More About: Opinion , Lier
Historical Genuine Military Orders
2007-09-12 02:31:00 The orders of any historical existence may be reduced to three categories: (a) The Greater Regular Orders; (b) The Lesser Regular Orders; (c) The Secular Orders. The Greater Regular Orders The great military orders had their origin in the crusades, from which they retain the common badge of every order of knighthood — the cross worn on ... More About: Religion , Military , Articles , Opinion , English
Santiago?s Golden Legend
2007-09-11 02:06:00 Santiago de Compostela has been a lodestar for visitors for more than a thousand years. The world’s first guidebook was written in 1130 by Aimeri Picaud, a French monk, to give information to travelers on their way there. In the early Middle Ages, between 500,000 and 2 million people came each year. They came, however, not ... More About: Spirituality , Opinion , Spain , English , Santiago
On the Grail trail
2007-09-10 02:50:00 The final resting place of the Holy Grail is shrouded in mystery - or is it? Adam Edwards visits a remarkable mansion for sale in Wales, where many believe the sacred relic once resided. Was it the real thing? And is it now in a bank vault in Herefordshire? The search for the Holy Grail has ... More About: Opinion , England and Wales , TRAI , The G
Take me to the tower
2007-09-07 02:39:00 An English man’s home is his castle in France . From the tower, he can watch for advancing guests through slit-arrow windows. The garden is enclosed by low stone walls and walnut trees, and inside the house there are medieval fireplaces and stone éviers (sinks). His castle would probably be a National Trust property if it were ... More About: News , Articles , Opinion
Rosslyn Chappel - Splendour on a Transylvanian scale
2007-09-06 02:35:00 Rosslyn Chapel is surely Britain’s most extraordinary building, with a richly carved stone interior of such barbaric splendour that, if you were shown pictures of it without any clue as to location, you might guess it to be somewhere completely alien - Moldavia, perhaps, or Transylvania. In fact, the chapel is located in the prosaic ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Holy Grail , Scale , Lend
Rothley Temple and the Chapel of the Knights Templar
2007-09-05 02:42:00 There is a vast amount of documentation about the Manor and Soke of Rothley and what follows is a fragment of history to show how Rothley Temple , or Rothley Preceptory, and its Chapel , all now part of the Rothley Court Hotel, features in our village history. Who were the Knights Templar and what is their ... More About: Articles , Opinion
13th Century Templar Chapel
2007-09-04 02:20:00 Two weeks ago I visited relatives in Melton Mowbray. My interest in European history is no secret to them. A surprise treat was lunch at Rothley Court Hotel and a pre-courtesy guided tour of the historic Mansion. The most impressive element is the continuous recorded history beginning with a mention in the Doomsday Book of 1086, ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Chapel , Century , Temp
Most Popular Posts - August
2007-09-03 03:43:00 Dear readers, We have had more visiors in August than June and July put together! Thanks! It shows the great interest from members of the Order and readers at large. Just in the last 48 hours we have had visitors from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, ... More About: English , Popular , Fran , Posts
Templar Chronicles III - Alcobaça 2
2007-09-01 03:30:00 Hello, I?m Luis de Matos, Chancellor of the OSMTHU and Editor of the Temp lar Globe. Last April I presented our readers with the account of one of my family outings to Alcobaça, a Cistercian Monastery closely connected with the Portuguese Templar heritage, and told you a little bit about this beautiful village and its medieval history. I ... More About: Portugal , Opinion , Chronicles
FINDING MY RELIGION V - Anne Scott, a follower of Sufism, teaches feminine
2007-08-31 03:27:00 Sufism is typically thought of as a mystical branch of Islam whose practices developed in the Middle East during the eighth century and whose adherents can now be found around the world. But whereas some Sufis continue to identify themselves as part of Islam, others do not. Anne Scott has worked with the Naqshbandi Sufi ... More About: Religion , Articles , Spirituality , Opinion , Interview
San Guillermo, de Francia a Fi[ni]sterra
2007-08-30 02:30:00 En Fi[ni]sterra hay una ermita derruida cuya advocación ha despertado las más diversas teorías, unas con algún acierto y otras sin ningún asidero. Me refiero a la ermita de San Guillermo , erigida en una caverna por los Templarios, tan afectos a reunir reliquias de santos como las de Felipe, Helena, Esteban, Lorenzo, Eufemia y otros ... More About: Articles , Spain , Francia , Franc
The holiest place in the world
2007-08-29 02:45:00 The Jews believed that God literally dwelt in the Beit Elohim, or House of God, and such houses - what we call temples - were built in Siloh, Bethel, Dan, Gilgal and other towns. But in an effort to concentrate worship and stamp on heresy and paganism, Solomon built the Bait ha-Migdash, “home of the ... More About: Religion , Articles , World , Opinion , Crusades
The holiest place in the world
2007-08-28 02:45:00 The Jews believed that God literally dwelt in the Beit Elohim, or House of God, and such houses - what we call temples - were built in Siloh, Bethel, Dan, Gilgal and other towns. But in an effort to concentrate worship and stamp on heresy and paganism, Solomon built the Bait ha-Migdash, “home of the ... More About: Religion , Articles , World , Opinion , Crusades
The Templar Castle of Almourol
2007-08-28 02:23:00 Great video by Hugo Almeida you can find on YouTube. Hugo sent as an email with a link to this 4min clip about the Temp lar castle of Almourol, in a small island in the middle of the Tagus river, just a few miles from Tomar and we think this is something you should look at. The voice over ... More About: Video , Portugal , Opinion , Castle
Weekend to remember - Valencia
2007-08-27 02:56:00 Like most tourists, we came from the wrong direction. The orange-rich plains near Valencia should have lain before us. Instead, we had driven away from the city that morning. A tortuous ascent had led us to Ares, in a forgotten corner of north-east Spain . This was once the the limit of the Christian kingdom, and ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Weekend
Finding My Religion IV - Dustin Erwin on how and why he became a member of
2007-08-24 06:50:00 Practically every major city in America has a Masonic temple, often a grand structure featuring an ornate stone facade, towering columns and a sprawling interior. However, exactly what goes on behind closed doors remains a mystery to most outsiders. The Freemasons, an international fraternal organization, are known for keeping their activities secret. For centuries, that penchant ... More About: Religion , United States , Articles , Spirituality , Opinion
Stairways to heaven - Templars in Portugal
2007-08-23 02:22:00 There cannot be many more forbidding places of worship than the Convento de Cristo at Tomar , 80 miles north of Lisbon. Built as a fortress as well as a monastery, it stands menacingly above the town, its gloomy yellow walls piled on mournful grey ramparts. Your first instinct, on reaching the end of the winding ... More About: Articles , Portugal , Heaven , Opinion
A Minnesota Mystery: The Kensington Runestone
2007-08-22 02:16:00 It’s one of Minnesota ’s greatest mysteries. It’s something that puts settlers in America well before Columbus. A Minnesota geologist thinks the controversial Kensington Runestone is the real thing and there is evidence that he says backs up the theory. The Kensington Runestone is a rock found near Alexandria a century ago. It’s inscription speaking of Norwegians ... More About: News , United States , Books , Articles
Home to priests, troops - and cows
2007-08-21 02:51:00 FASCINATING as it is to visit historic houses that have been continuously inhabited by one family since they were built, it is equally interesting to find a venerable building that has not been so privileged and protected. St Mary?s House at Bramber in is just such a place: constructed by Bishop Waynflete in 1470, it has ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Home , Troops , Priest
The cup that runneth over
2007-08-20 02:40:00 In his breezily comic novel A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, Mark Twain pokes fun briefly at the cult of the Holy Grail. “The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several-years’ cruise. Every year expeditions went out holy Grailing and next year relief ... More About: Books , Articles , Opinion
FINDING MY RELIGION III - Kabbalah scholar Daniel Matt takes the mysticism
2007-08-17 22:18:00 For centuries, the study of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, was considered off-limits to anyone but the most mature scholars. Some believed you could go crazy if you weren’t ready to take its powerful truths about the nature of God and reality. That was, of course, before a wave of Hollywood stars became entranced with the teachings ... More About: Religion , Articles , Spirituality , Opinion , Interview
Knights in white sashes
More articles from this author:2007-08-16 02:26:00 TUCKED away in Clerkenwell in the heart of old London, close to Smithfield meat market and ignored by office workers as they scurry past, is a remarkable link with the Crusades: it is St John’s Gate, which, with the nearby Grand Priory Church, is all that remains of the English headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller ... More About: Articles , Opinion , White , Nights 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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