dilluns, 19 de gener del 2009

BBC News Vatican to publish knights templar trial


The vatican publish a document which forgotten in the Pope' s secret archives. Is the account of the trial of the knights Templar of pope Clement V in XIV century. Templar is already a financial success. Collectors from around the world reserved the documents. The Christian military order protected the christian pilgrims from the beginning of cruades. After the recapture of Jerusalem by Muslims of Crusader armies two centuries later, the knights fell on hard times. They initiation ceremonies and Clement V ordered a trial wich partially rehabilitated the knights.

Vocabulary: pilgrims= pelegrins crusades= croades
knights = cavallers