Clement V (1264-1314) reigned as pope from 1305 to 1314. He was the first pope of the "Babylonian Captivity," when the papacy was located in Avignon, France.Bertrand de Got, who became Pope Clement V,...
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Rome (dpa) - Sodomy, blasphemy and witchcraft were among the
crimes for which the warrior-monks of the Order of the Knights
Templar were burnt at the stake.
B...
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Vatican City (dpa) - Medieval cloak-and-dagger buffs eager to pour
over the details of the trial that banished the Knights Templar to
history's mysterious mists can now do s...
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Sheiks, libraries and collectors around the world have ordered the Vatican's new $8,400 limited-edition documentation of the heresy trial of the Knights Templar, officials said Thursday.The leather...
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It's not the Holy Grail, but for fans of "The Da Vinci Code" and its tantalizing story line about the Knights Templar, it could be the next best thing.Ignored for centuries, documents about the her...
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