Paul neither one of us was quick to the draw. I sat on your dad’s email for three days.

It was “beautiful and moving” and “full of poetry”, Dr Frale said, but “incredibly has never been studied”.

Yet another proof of the sensus fidei when it comes to loving our Queen of Heaven, eh?

As for Templar baloney… I’m jaded too Fr! So much disinformation out there… it is heartening to see something which is not a fabrication.

It is sad that this group of dedicated men, who strove to unite the contrary virtues of Monk and Warrior, and who gave their lives willingly for their faith, should be mostly remembered as a source of fantasy and fairy-tale. It would be far better, far more appropriate, to remember the honest image of the Knights, ssergents and humble serving-brothers, clad in their mantles of white or brown, living, farming, traiding, fighting and dying with the red Cross of martydom on their chests and the battle-standard above their heads. In aragon, in January 1308 a Templar Preceptor wrote to King James and said, “God knows that I pity you, and the King of France, and all Catholics for the harm which arises from all this (the torture and murder of many of the Templars and the disbanding of their Order) – more than ourselves, who have to endure the evil.”
The Templars were not angels or saints; but they were not devils either.

When all is said and done, I guess all one can say, is that they were a lot like us.