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How Interesting! How many of us find this relevant to a game plot? The Templars are still active in my game, don’t know about yours…
| The Vatican is to publish a book which is expected to shed light on the demise of the Knights Templar, a Christian military order from the Middle Ages. |
The book is based on a document known as the Chinon parchment, found in the Vatican Secret Archives six years ago after years of being incorrectly filed.
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The document is a record of the heresy hearings of the Templars before Pope Clement V in the 14th Century.
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The official who found the paper says it exonerates the knights entirely.
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Prof Barbara Frale, who stumbled across the parchment by mistake, says that it lays bare the rituals and ceremonies over which the Templars were accused of heresy.
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However, according to Prof Frale, study of the document shows that the knights were not heretics as had been believed for 700 years.
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In fact she says “the Pope was obliged to ask for pardons from the knights… the document we have found absolves them”.
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