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Palmer-Thomas, R.

 
9781333624200: Notes on the Order of the Temple: Addressed to the Members of Sancta Maria Preceptory (Classic Reprint)

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Order of the Temple or Poor Fellow Soldiers of Jesus Christ was founded about 1118 by Hugh de Payens, the first Master, Geoffrey deS t. Omer and seven other Knights for the purpose of affording protection to pilgrims on their way to the Holy City. They were bound by the vows of Poverty, Chastity andO bedience, and very real was their poverty in those days, for tradition tells us that Hugh de Payens and his friend Geoffroy deS t. Omer owned only one horse between them, which circumstance is alluded to in the seal of the Temple, which shows two Knights on one horse. The Order grew rapidly but had noC hurch or settled habitation until Baldwin IT, King of Jerusalem, gave them the ancient Church of our Lady within the Temple enclosure, originally built by theE mperor Justinian, and called by theM oslems Djame alA cusa. The Mosque ofO mar, erected on the site of the Hebrew Temple, was at that time aC hristian Church known as the Temple of theL ord, and the Canons of this Church also ceded to the Templars the Court between it, and theD jame alA
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