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- Subject: Re: The TemplarsREAD/NEW
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.101252.1846@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 10:12:52 CST
- References: <N213TB1w165w@netlink.cts.com> <sc19TB1w165w@status.gen.nz>
- Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University
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- In article <sc19TB1w165w@status.gen.nz>, jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) writes:
- > jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery) writes:
- >
- >> I know someone who was initiated into the Templars at University of
- >> San Diego during the 70's but was then never really active in that
- >> group. (USD is a Catholic institution.) I suspect students get
- >> together from time to time and resurrect things like the Templars.
- >>
- >
- > Jim,
- >
- > While the true Knights of Malta may have been a Catholic Organisation
- > many years ago, at the refermation in the late 1500's there was a split
- > which still exists today.
- >
- > You have the Catholic and the Prodestent Orders still practising
- > worldwide.
- >
- > The Knights of Malta, also known as the Temple Knights.
-
- But quite distinct from the Knights Templar which ceased as an open
- organized entity in 1307 with its almost complete destruction in France by
- great deceit and treachery at the hands of King Philip and driven
- underground in Britain upon papal decree from Clement V, possibly to
- evolve and re-emerge in later years as freemasonry.
-
- -Joe Gaut
-