Email: Dark Knight of the Templars (24.9.2020)

No one resisted and the general atmosphere was one of ‘stunned’ bemusement. This is when the torturing began. Although there is no objective evidence that any of the allegations are ‘true’ (including the nonsense of worshipping Mary Magdalene), when Pope Clement V finally returned, he was provided with thousands of coerced confessions and literally ’threatened’ into agreeing with King Philip’s actions and decisions. As a consequence, the Pope dissolved the Templars in 1312 – but by this time thousands had been tortured or starved to death in French prisons, or publicly executed. Grand Master Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake in 1314 for daring to ‘retract’ his confession and stating that the Order was ‘pure’. He added that the devil moved within the Catholic Church and was ruling France!   

The St Bartholomew Day’s Massacre (1572)

‘During the night of August 23/24, 1572 on the eve of St Bartholomew’s Day, Catholics engaged in a mass slaughter of thousands of Huguenots in Paris – men and women, old men and infants. Catherine de Medicis is to have said that it was kind to be cruel to the Huguenots and cruel to be kind. The Spanish ambassador reported elatedly to Philip II: “As I write, they are killing them all, they are stripping them naked, dragging them through the streets, plundering the houses, and sparing not even children. Blessed be God who has converted the French princes to His cause! May He inspire their hearts to continue as they have begun.” And Pope Gregory XIII exclaimed that the massacre pleased him more than fifty victories at Lepanto. That night of carnage staggered the imagination of contemporaries and descendants.’

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