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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
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
Letters remain the holy grail to code-breakers
2007-08-15 02:55:00 For 250 years it defied all code-breakers. Darwin had a go; Dickens, and Wedgwood too. But the 10-letter inscription - DOUOSVAVVM - carved into a monument on the Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire thumbed its nose at the curious. Those of a romantic (or deluded) disposition believed it to be a coded message of the kind used ... More About: News , Articles , Opinion , Code , Letters
Igreja Ortodoxa acusa forças turcas de agressão contra fiéis
2007-08-14 02:30:00 O arcebispo da Igreja Ortodoxa no Chipre, Chrysostomos 2º, afirmou nesta segunda-feira que “a liberdade dos cristãos está mais uma vez ameaçada” no país. Ele divulgou um comunicado afirmando que a celebração de uma missa no monastério de São Barnabás de Famagusta, no território ocupado pelo exército turco, foi impedida com uso de violência. O terço ... More About: News , Religion , Contra
Turks expel Cyprus abbot from historical monastery
2007-08-14 02:29:00 At the time that religious freedom is preached by Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan, the Turkish occupation forces brutally expelled the abbot of the oldest Greek Cypriot Orthodox monastery this week. Government Spokesman Vasilis Palmas condemned Thursday the expulsion of the abbot of the monastery of Apostolos Varnavas (Saint Barnabas) in the northern occupied part of ... More About: News , Religion , English , Historical , Cyprus
Tomar - Last redoubt of the Knights Templar
2007-08-13 02:14:00 Persecution drove the warrior monks of the Middle Ages to Tomar in Portugal . There, Richard Robinson finds, they built their Camelot “I SEE that you are not Jewish,” said the only person, other than my wife and I, inside the sparse, four-pillared chamber. My wife shot me a reprimanding look, as if I had done something ... More About: Articles , Knights , Opinion
FINDING MY RELIGION II - The Rev. Ken Barnes saw alcohol as a gateway to th
2007-08-10 02:48:00 Alcohol has long been part of spiritual practices, from the Grecian rites of Dionysus, the god of wine, to the observance of the Christian Eucharist. The Talmud, a sacred book of Jewish law, insists that the celebration of Purim is not complete until a person has drunk so much that he “cannot tell the difference ... More About: Religion , Articles , Spirituality , Opinion , Interview
Tras la pista de san Guillermo
2007-08-09 02:36:00 SAN GUILLERMO fue un caballero-monje muy admirado por las órdenes de caballería debido a su valentía y religiosidad. Tanto es así que una de estas órdenes le erigió una ermita que dio nombre a un monte de Fisterra. El cardenal Jerónimo del Hoyo, que visita la ermita en 1607, dice que había un sepulcro donde estuvo ... More About: Articles , Spain , Guillermo
Esqueletos Templários Enterrados no Jardim
2007-08-08 02:54:00 A câmara de Santarém realizou uma prospecção arqueológica preventiva para requalificar o jardim da República, recolhendo dez esqueletos de época medieval e uma estela funerária, segundo o arqueólogo da autarquia, escreve a Lusa. António Matias disse à Agência Lusa que a obra de requalificação do jardim contíguo ao convento de S. Francisco «será acompanhada por arqueólogos» ... More About: News , Portugal , Jardim , Rado , Temp
China Detains Priests From Underground Catholic Church
2007-08-07 02:34:00 BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. based monitoring group says four more priests from China ’s underground Roman Catholic church have been detained by police. The Cardinal Kung Foundation says three priests were detained Tuesday after fleeing their hometown to avoid arrest for refusing to join the state-sanctioned church, while the fourth priest was detained in early July. China’s ... More About: News , Religion , Church , Catholic Church
Catholics called to Second Life
2007-08-06 02:41:00 VATICAN CITY, Roman Catholics are being encouraged by a Vatican-approved journal to preach the word of Jesus in the virtual world of Second Life . The Rev. Antonio Spadaro wrote in La Civilta Cattolica that Christian teaching is the answer to the rampant sinning, including gambling and prostitution, The Telegraph reported Monday. Second Life , an Internet-based game that ... More About: News , Religion
FINDING MY RELIGION I - Tau Malachi, a Sophian Gnostic bishop, talks about
2007-08-03 02:02:00 No matter what you think about the book or the movie — love it, hate it or totally sick of hearing about it — “The Da Vinci Code” has sparked a debate about the nature of faith and the foundations of Christianity. It’s also turned a spotlight on some lesser-known religious traditions that have been ... More About: Religion , Articles , Spirituality , Opinion , Interview
New Da Vinci theory takes down several Leonardo related sites
2007-08-02 02:21:00 Slavisa Pesci, an amateur scholar and information technologist, has made some interesting remarks that caused some Leonardo Da Vinci related websites to suffer and crash because of the onslaught of traffic that came from conspiracy theorists and Dan Brown fans. Pesci said that when he superimposed a reversed image of the fresco ?Last Supper? on top ... More About: News , Italy , Opinion , English , Sites
Most Popular Posts - July
2007-08-01 22:32:00 Dear readers, Once again we publish the table of the most read posts during July. Be sure to check the ones you haven’t read yet and explore even further the resources we have now in our Blog. In the table you’ll find the present position of a post and the position it occupied last month in ... More About: Articles , English , Popular , Fran , Posts
C?est Vrai: Marquis de La Fayette was social butterfly during stay in New O
2007-08-01 02:16:00 Under this title the “Daily Advertiser” from Louisiana, United States , published a short article a few days ago about the social calendar of the Marquis de La Fayette while he visited New Orleans in 1825. La Fayette was a French military officer and former aristocrat who participated in both the American and French revolutions, an ... More About: Social , Articles , English , Butterfly
Gloucestershire?s Ley Lines
More articles from this author:2007-07-31 02:04:00 Ley lines, also known as “leys” and “dragon lines” are phenomena most people have heard of but few really understand. Indeed it would be fair to say that no-one understands them fully, as they remain largely unexplained. Are there ley lines in Gloucestershire? If so, do they really ‘pass through’ allegedly haunted places? From what we do ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Lines , Este 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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