Posted on 03/18/2021 11:51:10 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1314, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned in Paris.
In a boring materialist history, Jacques de Molay was simply the head of an overrich military order whose crusading raison d’etre had become passe* with the Templars’ expulsion from the Holy Land.
Scores of trumped-up heresy charges did the work of ecclesiastical assassination for this renowned brotherhood originally founded to safeguard pilgrims in the Holy Land. (There’s a fine podcast episode on the Templars’ history here.)
This appears to be some sort of legitimate history. How droll!
Ruthless French King Philip the Fair, who owed the Templar banks a ton of cash, mounted in 1307 a, um, surprise nationalization — with the magnificently coordinated arrest of hundreds of members of the order on Friday, Oct. 13, 1307.**
This was, on the face of it, quite an infringement by the secular power upon the Church, but since Pope Clement V was Philip’s very own sock puppet — to the extent of relocating the papacy to Avignon the better to attend to his master — it was all good. Plus, of course, everyone made out with a big pile of loot.
As the interested parties jockeyed over those confiscated estates, there ensued for the once-powerful, now-proscribed order a years-long saga of torture, burnings (of lower-ranking Templars), salacious Baphomet-worship revelations, juridical maneuvering, and, finally, a compromise life-saving confession which Molay and his associate Geoffroi de Charney dramatically spurned....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Yeah but his legacy lives on because he put great treasures on a boat and dug a (impossible to find) pit on oak island. 🙄
The Templars got screwed bigtime.
They will get justice...................
I thought it was buried in Minnesota.......................
“I do not grieve that I must die if life can be bought only by piling one lie upon another!” - de Molay, at his recantation.
On a side note, the accusations against the Templars sound very familiar, like the accusations against the Trump people...............
Another “speculative history” writer, John J. Robinson, theorized that they already had (albeit a few generations later), in the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.
I thought it was buried in Minnesota.......................
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Isn’t that the rune stone?
After they tortured the cr@p out of him first.
Yes!.................... It’s real!.................
Bingo.
And of course through the the International Order of DeMolay, basically a Masonic Lodge for boys.
Thank you for the mention of DeMolay, I was a member in my youth.
As was I. I don’t remember much about the rituals and memorization, but the social aspect with Job’s Daughters and Rainbows was certainly “memorable”!
Thanks for posting. Informative/educational/history
Allegedly, When Louis XVI was executed during the French Revolution, someone was heard to shout “Jacques de Molay, you are avenged!”
They may have. But De Molay’s revenge will come at the final Judgement against those who plotted his death and the deaths of those faithful Templars..............
It’s said before he died, he cursed King Philip IV and Pope Clement V, and both died within a year. Philip IV, also called “Philip the Fair” is, according to my Ancestry family tree, my alleged 20th great-grandfather. His daughter Isabella married Edward II of England. Whether it’s true, is anybody’s guess.
Because of my fond memories of those years and my membership, I was able to purchase an old copy of the DeMolay Ritual Manual as a keepsake
Not bad, but the for a real plot twist, check the Templars’ turn — most famously in Dan Brown’s leaden bestseller The Da Vinci Code, but more entertainingly rendered as nonfiction “speculative history” in Holy Blood, Holy Grail ...
Ugh...
The first book is a joke the second one brought be back to the Catholic Faith because if it dumb theories so for that, I am at least greatful.
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