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The Mammoth Book of Cover-UpsIt was this knowledge of the Grail which was the true cause of the Templars’ fall to ruin. If Jesus’s bloodline were still extant, the Papacy was illegitimate. To protect itself, the Papacy and its monarchical supporters ordered the extermination of those who knew the truth of the Grail — the Knights Templar. The notion of still extant Knights Templar and documents proving the rewriting of Christianity by the Catholic Church is wildly popular — proof being the millions of copies of The DaВ Vinci Code which have been sold. Evidence to tie modern Templar claimants to the Knights Templar of yore is nonexistent, however. If the Templars live on it is in placenames such as Temple Meads, in their round churches like Garway, and in their ruined castles like Crak des Chevaliers. One mystery does survive the Templars. The Holy Grail as Christ’s bloodline is, to quote historian Marina Warner, В«hooeyВ», but what were the Templars looking for in their nine years of excavations in the Temple of Jerusalem? And did they find it? The Knights Templar survived the cull of the 14th century and live on today as guardians of the Holy Grail: ALERT LEVEL 3 Further Reading Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 1982 Dan Brown, The DaВ Vinci Code, 2003 [novel] Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelations, 1998 Piers Paul Read, The Templars, 1999 John Lennon Everyone knows who shot former Beatle John Lennon outside the Dakota Building, New York, at 10.50 p.m. on 8 December 1980 ...» |
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