Order of the Knights Templar catholic The urn filled with manna

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

they curl their lips and jeer

perhaps the earliest Christian institution to combine protection and assistance of pilgrims

represent the central themes of the Christian faith

or those of frey Pedro de Arias in that of Las Navas de Tolosa

Order of the Knights Templar catholic The urn filled with mannaAfter 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