Scientists from Great Britain have discovered the Church of the Knights Templar in a rabbit hole. According to the results of analyzes, the building is about 7 centuries old. In the interior, the arcades, arches and stone pillars are almost intact. In the room itself, historians have discovered encrypted symbols that may indicate the location of the famous main temple of the Templars. According to legend, the treasures of the mysterious order are hidden in it. So where are these treasures worth billions of dollars?
They were called black magicians and sorcerers. The curse of the Knight Templar was feared more than the Devil. The Middle Ages turned this Order into a real myth, but what did the knights of the Holy Catholic Church really hide?
The legendary curse of the Templars is a mystery of history. At the time of his execution at the stake of the Inquisition, the Master of the Order, Jacques de Molay, cursed Pope Clement V, King Philip the Fair of France and his entire dynasty up to the 13th generation.
Jacques de Molay, 13th and last Master of the Knights Templar.
Pope Clement V.
King Philip the Handsome of France.
The Knights Templar was founded in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 12th century. Officially, the purpose of creating a brotherhood was to protect Christianity in Muslim lands, but from the very beginning of their existence, the Knights of the Faith did not look like ordinary priests.
The famous temple of the Order was also different from the usual cathedrals. According to the archives, the dungeon of the stables of King Solomon became the main house of the Templars. From the surviving descriptions of contemporaries it is known that the facade of the building was decorated with weapons and shields. The main shrines of the Christian world were kept in special caskets under the ceiling.
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According to legend, in one of the caskets, suspended from the ceiling of the temple, the very cup of the Holy Grail was kept. There is a version that the Templars inherited this artifact from another secret organization, the Order of the Priory of Zion (by the way, I already talked about this Order in the article: "The Da Vinci Code")
There is another hypothesis: the Knights could accidentally stumble upon Christian relics at the time of the arrangement of their temple in the dungeons of the Solomon stables.
Perhaps it was these findings that lifted the inconspicuous ministers of the church to the pinnacle of power?
In just 15 years of their existence, the Templars achieved almost limitless influence over the entire territory of Christian Europe.
Alonso II.
Pope Innocent II.
According to skeptics, the reason for the fall of the Order was the usual redistribution of power. The fact is that the knights swung at the holy of holies of the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages - pawnshops.
This is a historical fact, which is confirmed by official sources. The Knights of Christ were arrested overnight, and the document on the dissolution of the Order was signed by Pope Clement V retroactively.
And the Spear of Longinus, and the Holy Grail, even the Shroud could be in the hands of the Templars, but no matter how they were tortured, no matter how tortured, no matter how much money, no artifacts were burned, no single records, no books and documents were found during arrest.
The mystery of the location of the temple, as well as all its riches, perished along with the knights. However, modern researchers are still looking for the famous treasure. According to the main version, the treasures are located in the dungeon of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, but to date there is no way to test this hypothesis.