Order of the Knights Templar

Order of the Knights TemplarAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8

Templar knights wore distinctive white mantles with a red cross

The Lazarists wore a green cross upon their mantle

the first parish in the world to be consecrated in honor of Our Lord Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI not in Europe

but with the protection of King Denis I The Wise of Portugal and under the patronage of Saint Benedict the Order of Christ was founded as the reconstituted Knights Templar in Tomar

Robert Courte-Heuse being urged declined in like manner

Because he surrendered himself to death and was counted among the wicked

he shall see his descendants in a long life

the more one realizes it is anti-human

this seemed reckless or crazy

and by Emperor Frederick II

give honor

he was born around 386 AD in Roman Britain left us two written documents by his own hand