Masonic Traveller
Friday the 13th has traditionally been looked as a black day. A day filled with old superstitions and innuendo to bad things happening. Watch out for the black cats, ladders on the sidewalk, and breaking mirrors. But today is a 700 year anniversary to one of the darkest acts in history.
699 years ago, French King Phillipe IV, conspiring with Pope Clement V, arrested and dissolved the Order of Knights Templar arresting the order in France, including their Grand Master Jacques de Molay. The arrest was founded on accusations and scandalous, perverse rumours about them .After interrogations and likely coerced confessions (remember this was the era of inquisitions), de Molay confesed only to "denying Christ and trampling on the Cross", statements he was forced to repeat in public for the humiliation of the noble order. With his confession, the Pope ordered the arrest of all Knights Templar across Chrisendom, which lead to tortured confessions and accusations of herasy. Many Templar knights were absorbed into other knighthoods, such as the Knights of Malta and the Hospitilars...[Full Article]
