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- From: loshin@godot.think.com (David Loshin)
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- Subject: Re: The Templars
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:10:12
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- In article <sc19TB1w165w@status.gen.nz> jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) writes:
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- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 09:32:27 GMT
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- jim@netlink.cts.com (Jim Bowery) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- Actually, the Knights of Malta had been previously known as the Knights of
- the Hospital of St. John, or the "Hospitallers." The Hospitallers and the
- Templars (The Knights of the Temple (Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem)) were
- rivals for patronage in the Catholic Church up until around the time of the
- Avignon Captivity, when the Templar Order was crushed by the French Pope on
- orders from the King of France.
-
- The Hospitallers originally had been based near Akko, Palestine, while the
- Templars were situated in Jerusalem. When the Saracens drove the
- Hospitallers from Akko, they retreated to Rhodes, and then later retreated
- further West in the Mediteranean to Malta. After the crush of the Templars,
- the Hospitallers were renamed the Knights of Malta, since they no longer
- guarded the hospital of St. John.
-
- -David
-