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

and a soft mesh back

at the aid of Christian kings

the monks of nearby Monasteries become the protectors of the pilgrims

go to Confession

however in the Villa de Almazán

The pelican symbolizes Jesus our Redeemer who gave His life for our redemption and the atonement He made through His passion and death

the Order was founded around 1050 by twelve friars trying to resemble the 12 apostles of nearby Lucca

Louis IX of France represented the Holy Trinity in the 13th century with the Fleur de lis

residence of the Grand Master of Saint James (Santiago)

the Order received recognition from Pope Paschal II in 1113 through the bull Geraudo institutori ac praeposito Hirosolimitani Xenodochii

and at the head of its Master

nor was there ever