Order of the Knights Templar order since in its beginnings it

since in its beginnings it was only religious

The Hospitallers as well as the Templars are considered by the pontificate as Universal Orders

my holy mountain

is not worthy of me

the suppression was never really carried out at all

Order of the Knights Templar order since in its beginnings itAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8