So the Roman Church created history of a slaughter and then sells that history?
Oh joy! What's next -- Russia releasing Stalin's order to kill all those Polish Officers for Marilyn Monroe's signature? (In case you didn't know, the Russians are nuts about the blonde...
The Templars were slaughtered by the French king as part of the consolidation of power that led to royal absolutism in France, England, Spain etc. Documents about it are found in French archives as well as archives in Rome. The history was created by the king of France; records of it were created by the various people involved. The “Roman Church” (to use your polemic language) is simply making documents available. That costs money. It’s normal for researchers to pay fees for obtaining documents, as any genealogist will tell you.
Why don’t you take your animosity toward the “Roman Church” and shove it?
The article said: “Fredol “had gone to question the Great Master and other heads of the Templars who had been segregated, practically kidnapped, by the king of France and shut up in secret in his castle in Chinon on the Loire.”
Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templars, was burned at the stake in 1314 along with his aides.”
The quote above means that Philip, king of France, had the Templars killed not the Catholic Church. It also means the Church through Pope Clements emissary, Fredohl discovered the treachery of Philip, reported it back to the Pope who documented it and put in the Church archives, recently discovered and published by the Catholic Church. And the Catholic Church did what wrong???
Well thought out comments on your part!
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Ummm... Did you entirely misread the article? The Roman Church vindicated the Knights Templar; the secular government of France killed them. (in this sense “secular” means only as opposed to “ecclesiastical”; I do not claim that the government of France wasn’t Catholic.) And they were hardly innocent.
Way to be mad about things that happened 700 years ago.
LOL