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Monday, March 05, 2007

The Templar Legacy

Another book on the lines of The Da Vinci Code -riddles,clues,cryptexes..get the drift - this is work of fiction about the hunt for 'The Great Devise' and the Templar treasure, is still entertaining.

I liked it because the start was set in Copenhagen,one of my favorite cities, and because I like medieval history..

'The brethren,the masters of the Temple,
who were well filled and ample
with gold and silver and with wealth.
Where are they now? How have they fared?
Who had such power that none dared
take ought fromt hem,no man so bold:
forever buying,they never sold.'

A medieval French verse aptly describes the overly solvent Templars and their sudden disappearance.

This book also states the possibility that the Shroud of Turin,which holds enormous religious symbolic importance to Christians around the world, was that of the 22nd and last Master of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, Jacques de Molay(1314).
What irony!

It's a pity I did not make time to see it(purely as a medieval artifact!) when I was in Torino a few years ago..

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