Order of the Knights Templar catholic however the order was suppressed

however the order was suppressed in France during the French Revolution and lost official recognition in Italy during the establishment of the Italian republic

the Château of Broigny

The urn filled with manna from the wilderness – the miraculous bread come down from heaven

they rang a bell

Order of the Knights Templar catholic however the order was suppressedAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8