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Hertfordshire's Templar mystery |
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The Knights Templar today
Throughout the centuries since the suppression of the Knights Templar, a number of legends have circulated as to their fate. According to Grand Prior, Simon Le Fevre, there were no independent writers of contemporary journals or books existing at the time to account for the Order from 1314 to the 1800s - so its history remains vague. With this, stories of a secret continuation of the Order in the sanctuary of the Scottish mountains or among the noble families whose younger sons had provided generations of Templars in France were perpetuated.
The Order works hard in the communuity with Christian values at their core
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A parchment written in a Latin code, derived from the eight-pointed Templar Cross, exists in the Mark Masons Hall Library in St James’s, London. It surfaced at a bric-a-brac sale in London in about 1911. It claims to list the Grand Masters through the next five centuries. But none of the Templar legends are yet to pass the tests of rigorous scientific and academic proof. But, what we know of the truth is fascinating enough in itself.
In Portugal, the former Knights Templar were formed into a successor body, with the support of the king and the blessing of the pope. Dropping "and of the Temple of Solomon" from their name, this body became the "Order of Christ". Under its new banner, the Portuguese ships of Prince Henry the Navigator sailed to discover the New World of the Americas in the 15th Century. Today, the Order of Christ is occasionally still given to Roman Catholic heads of state as the highest order of chivalry the Holy See can award.
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