Rhode Island has four “commanderies,” or lodges, of Knights Templar whose members meet once a month, generally in Masonic ...
Though their order was dissolved more than 700 years ago, the Knights Templar have continued to cast a spell over the world. Terrorists and drug cartels evoke them. Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller The Da ...
By Dr. Lori Verderame In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Ecco (“Foucault’s ...
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in Europe. Several ...
On Christmas Day, 1119, the king of Jerusalem, Baldwin II persuaded a group of French knights led by Hugh de Payne II to save their souls by protecting pilgrims travelling the Holy Land. And so the ...
A team of archaeologists have achieved their dream of unearthing the legendary hidden tunnels of the ancient warrior monks of the Knights Templar. Described as "the stuff of childhood dreams", ...
The Knights Templar was an order of devout Christians founded in Jerusalem somewhere between 1118 and 1119 AD. This was after the First Crusade, a series of religious wars initiated and supported by ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.