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St George, Patron Saint of England
2008-06-04 02:24:00 St George was adopted as patron saint of England by one of our great warrior kings, Richard, of whom Shakespeare wrote: “Richard who robbed the lion of his heart and fought the Holy wars in Palestine.” Richard was one of the leaders of the third crusade, triggered by the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1189. When ...
By: Templar Globe
Russia and the West: The Tragedy of 1204 Redux
2008-04-10 07:35:00 As the demographic, geopolitical and ideological challenge of global Jihad to the shrinking remnant of Christendom looms ever larger, the West appears hell-bent on cordoning off, fragmenting, and eventually destroying the only Eastern Christian power that could and therefore should be its partner in the joint struggle. In the name of lofty ideals, but in ...
By: 1913 Intel
Knights of Malta elect Englishman as new leader
2008-03-17 02:47:00 In an unprecedented move an Englishman has been elected for the second time running as Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, the Roman Catholic order which traces its origins to the Crusades nearly a thousand years ago. Fra Matthew Festing OBE, 58, an art expert and former army officer who leads the order in Britain ...
By: Templar Globe
El camino de los hombres buenos
2008-03-14 02:42:00 La fortaleza de Montségur es el paradigma histórico de la resistencia cátara, la herejía que arraigó en el sur de Francia durante la Edad Media. Actualmente, las ruinas de este castillo son la culminación de una ruta que parte de las tierras catalanas y que constituye una verdadera peregrinación por los santuarios y paisajes que ...
By: Templar Globe
Dropping anchor in Greece and Turkey
2008-02-26 08:44:00 Blue is everywhere, differing shades of sky, sea, the blues aboard the boat and ashore. With a cool drink in my hand, a novel on my lap and the golden hues of a sinking Mediterranean sun, it?s an idyllic picture. Sailing past islands that have inspired myths and legends, yachting is the perfect way to do ...
By: Templar Globe
The Golden Legend: St. Thomas Becket
2008-02-15 01:19:00 Thomas is as much to say as abisme or double, or trenched and hewn, he was an abisme profound in humility, as it appeared in the hair that he wore, and in washing of the feet of the poor people, double in prelation that was in word and in ensample, and hewn and trenched in ...
By: Templar Globe
24 hours in Acre
2008-01-30 03:53:00 There are two Israeli cities that truly warrant visiting for a culinary tour: Nazareth and Acre. In both you can still find echoes of the magnificent cuisine of what was once, long ago, known as Greater Syria - an area that included Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and was blessed with the ingredients typical of the ...
By: Templar Globe
In the Footsteps of Templars Past, Two Men Create a New Path of Peace - One
2008-01-21 01:54:00 In this year of political grandstanding, it is refreshing to hear the true story of someone who quietly, and quite literally, ?walks the talk.? Author/photographer Brandon Wilson and his 68-year-old French friend recently completed an eleven-country, two-continent walk for peace to Jerusalem along a trail long associated with war. Wilson?s inspiring new book about their odyssey, ...
By: Templar Globe
?Arn: The Knight Templar? Slays Swedish Box Office
2008-01-03 01:37:00 While in America, box office returns show that we’re awash in aliens, predators, chipmunks, secrets and a self-made legend, Swedish cinema lovers supported one of their own when it opened on Christmas Day. Variety reports that Arn: The Knight Templar has earned a robust $2.2 million in its first two days of release. That breaks down to ...
By: Templar Globe
Calatrava la Vieja, el principio de la milicia de Dios
2007-12-21 16:39:00 Sobre los soberbios muros, poderosos durante tanto tiempo a contener el violento oleaje de alarbes invasiones, abre surcos el labrador para cubrir tanto abandono y olvido con la corona de flores y espigas de la fecunda naturaleza. ¡Efímera condición de las obras humanas!?. Así concluye la historia de un castillo, el de Calatrava La Vieja, ...
By: Templar Globe
Los radicales islámicos también atacan el deporte europeo
2007-12-18 01:48:00 Parece que la desfachatez y fanatismo de los musulmanes no tiene límite. Al maltrato de mujeres y homosexuales, el empleo de la violencia contra los niños o el terrorismo internacional, se une también una ofensiva que pretende imponer la sharia en Europa. La última, ha sido atacar al deporte europeo. Barsia Kaska, un abogado turco experto ...
By: Templar Globe
Fan Sues Over ?Crusader? Strip
2007-12-14 01:35:00 A Turkish lawyer has lodged a complaint with UEFA, European football’s governing body, after Italian side Inter Milan played his team wearing strips he claimed were offensive to Muslim sensibilities. Inter turned out in this season’s special edition strip, designed to celebrate the club’s centenary. It’s white and bears a large red cross on the chest ...
By: Templar Globe
Man suffering from lung disease crusades against asbestos
2007-12-11 00:02:00 mesothelioma clinicSarah, Phil and young Sarah Lake have made decisions about his healthcare as a family. Phil, a former millright, has lived with a rare cancer called mesothelioma for eight years. They say every day is blessed, despite his illness. .. SCOTT DEPOT — Phil Lake greets each new day with both the best and worst news. He awakens to know he has survived a terrible disease another day. Yet he knows he cannot forever survive the disease, a rare cancer called mesothelioma that has attacked the tissue that covers his lungs. He has had one lung and part of the other removed. A Gortex patch has replaced his diaphragm. He has undergone numerous rounds of chemotherapy and radiation. But here's the thing: Phil Lake, 47, husband of Sarah, father of a girl by the same name, looks good. He's trim but certainly not gaunt. His cheeks are ruddy, not pale. He has a firm hand...
Headteacher takes novel look at Templars
2007-12-05 13:54:00 AS HEADTEACHER to hundreds of teenagers, it may seem that Dr Paul Doherty already has his work cut out. But the dedicated teacher, who has been head of Trinity Catholic High School, Mornington Road, Woodford Green, for 26 years, has found time to write about 60 books. Ahead of the launch of his latest tome, The Templar, ...
By: Templar Globe
Los Templarios y el Reino Perdido
2007-12-04 01:46:00 En el siglo XII diversos reyes europeos recibieron una carta firmada por un tal Preste Juan, quien se autocalificaba regente de un misterioso reino situado en las tierras de Oriente y en el que habitarían seres mágicos. En El fantástico Reino del Preste Juan (Aguilar, 2007), obra fascinante de la que extractamos el siguiente artículo, ...
By: Templar Globe
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 ...
By: Templar Globe
In the Footsteps of the Crusaders
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 ...
By: Templar Globe
Les croisades
2007-10-10 04:07:00 De 1096 à 1291, huit fois de suite, les chrétiens s’élancent vers Jérusalem pour libérer la Terre sainte de la présence musulmane. Une épopée qui a bouleversé les rapports entre l’Orient et l’Occident «Le vendredi, de grand matin, nous donnâmes un assaut général à la ville sans pouvoir lui nuire ; et nous étions dans la ...
By: Templar Globe
Hawaii man hopes his pilgrimages will spread a message of peace
2007-10-08 02:01:00 Upcountry Maui resident Brandon Wilson followed in the footsteps of the first Crusaders last year when he walked from Dijon, France, to Jerusalem, spreading a message of commonality among people. This fall, he will follow another pilgrimage route in the same, traditional way, trekking the 625-mile Via de la Plata trail through Spain on foot. Wilson said ...
By: Templar Globe
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 ...
By: Templar Globe
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 ...
By: Templar Globe
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 ...
By: Templar Globe
Crusades? No problem...
2007-07-24 05:26:00 Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Daily Telegraph writer is less than impressed with the notion that there could be a Christian problem with religious violence per se, not just Muslim versions of it. read more
By: Ekklesia
Los Templarios en Tierra Santa
2007-06-07 02:13:00 Los caballeros del Temple encarnaron por excelencia el espíritu que animó las cruzadas a Tierra Santa. Monjes ascéticos, guerreros implacables, grandes señores feudales y también banqueros: los templarios llegaron a ser todo esto a la vez durante los dos siglos que duró su presencia en Palestina. Dueños de una poderosa red de fortalezas, estuvieron presentes ...
By: Templar Globe
Wackademia Alert: Michigan Daily
2007-05-31 17:57:00 Here’s an excerpt from an article that was brought to my attention this morning (hat-tip: Terp Mole) from the University of Michigan’s Michigan Daily: When we fight a war to eliminate an Islamic fundamentalist insurgency, while we claim to not be waging a war on Islam, naturally some people are confused. We ascribed political ...
Church Militant
2007-05-12 20:03:00 A review of God?s War: A New History of the Crusades, by Christopher Tyerman Since September 11, few historical events have been evoked more frequently than the Christian Crusades to the Holy Land (1095-1291). To Osama bin Laden’s fossilized mind, they happened almost yesterday: modern Israel’s brief existence in Palestine is analogous to the 200-year Frankish ...
By: Templar Globe
Teachers drop holocaust, crusades from history lessons to avoid offending c
2007-04-02 13:15:00 Teachers are dropping controversial subjects such as the Holocaust and the Crusades from history lessons because they do not want to offend children from certain races or religions, a report claims. A lack of factual knowledge among some teachers, particularly in primary schools, is also leading to ?shallow? lessons on emotive and difficult subjects, according to the study by the Historical Association. The report, produced with funding from the Department for Education, said that where teachers and staff avoided emotive and controversial history, their motives were generally well intentioned.
By: Attuworld
U.S. Treasury's Paulson crusades for greater opening of China's financial m
2007-03-11 17:25:00 From CBC News SHANGHAI (AP) - When U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson makes a pitch Thursday for China to drop barriers to trade, he'll be doing so from the gleaming Shanghai Futures Exchange, where only a handful of commodity futures are traded, by local brokers.The setting illustrates the progress and limitations in China's ambitions become a world financial power. Just last week, the country's growing heft in international markets hit home when a nine per cent drop in Shanghai triggered declines around the globe.But China needs to do far more to open its financial sector and underdeveloped capital markets, for the sake of its own well-being and global stability, Paulson said in comments in Tokyo this week.Paulson met Wednesday in Beijing with Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Yi, a former trade minister, China's most powerful woman and a key point person for dealings with Washington.Paulson did not make any public comments in Beijing, but in Tokyo on Tuesday he told Japanese officia... |
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