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Dec 4, 2011 · The biggest spiritual influence on the knights was a Cistercian abbot in France called Bernard of Clairvaux who led a very severe and self-punishing existence. Arn has to become a Templar as penance for having premarital relations.
The late scholar Hugh J. Schonfield speculated that the chaplains of the Knights Templar created the term Baphomet through the Atbash cipher to encrypt the Gnostic term Sophia (Greek for "wisdom") due to the influence of hypothetical Qumran Essene scrolls, which they may have found during archaeological digs in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity.
Mar 15, 2024 · When the influential French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux sat down to write about the Knights Templar around 1136, he described the members of the order as “fearless knight [s]” protected by the armor of “faith” and “steel.” They were, he wrote, “thus doubly-armed, and need fear neither demons nor men.”
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Sep 13, 2024 · Templar, member of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, a religious military order of knighthood established at the time of the Crusades that became a model and inspiration for other military orders.
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Jun 27, 2018 · An organisation shrouded in mystery, the Knights Templar began as a Catholic military order created to protect pilgrims on their journeys to and from the Holy Land. Though one of a number of religious orders at that time, the Knights Templar is certainly the most famous today.
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The biggest spiritual influence on the knights was a Cistercian abbot in France called Bernard of Clairvaux who led a very severe and self-punishing existence. Arn has to become a Templar as penance for having premarital relations.
