Word: templars
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Tied to a stake, wearing the paper miter of heresy, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned to death in the year 1314. But before he died, his stentorian voice cried out a terrible curse against his enemies: Pope Clement V. his prosecutor, Guillaume de Nogaret, and the coldly handsome King Philip IV of France. Historians still argue over the guilt or innocence of the Templars,*but most agree that they had to be swept away before Philip's kingdom could become a nation of Frenchmen instead of warring congeries of Burgundians, Gascons, Provengals, Normans...
...seemed more plausible than sainthood, and not even King Philip was surprised to find that a dying man's curse was as deadly as a knife: within a year of De Molay's howled imprecation from the fire, Pope, prosecutor and the King himself had followed the Templar to the grave...
...Knights Templar were organized in 1128 to protect pilgrims going to the Holy Land. With the end of the Crusades, the Templars became less a fighting order of knights than a collection of enormously wealthy bankers. By the use of informers, partisan judges and torture, King Philip and the Inquisition liquidated the order, took over its possessions. Under torture, many Templars admitted to the crimes of spitting on the Cross, denying Christ, sodomy, embezzlement, worshiping the Devil...
...Governor Edward F. Arn and two captains of Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign, Senator Frank Carlson and National Committeeman Harry Darby. Arn openly and Carlson and Darby quietly backed Party Stalwart George Templar, 49, as Arn's successor. But by a margin of 15,000 votes, Templar, onetime U.S. attorney and state senator, was overpowered by the winner: scrappy, jaunty Lieutenant Governor Frederick Lee Hall...
...since 1951 he has been back in the old belfry composing a bigger and better supernatural peal. So Long as Love Remembers is the story of a young Viennese musician named "Tightpants" Halka, who emigrates to the U.S. under the protection of three guardian spirits: a Knight Templar (the one who saves Olga from Harvard), the Cloisters statue of the Madonna and an ex-captain of the S.S. Europa. In America, Tightpants marries Olga, who hails from Wilkes-Barre and is a living replica of the Madonna. She is also musically inclined and bats out a lyric entitled Bungalow...