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Generous Sentiments On The Prosperity Of Others, Conducive To Our Own Happiness.
never prospers . It enervates the mind , and throws a man out of the steady course of life to indulge in wild speculation , the sootier to obtain the great superiority for which he is so anxious . No wonder is it , therefore , that his time and his talents slip away insensibly from him-, and he finds himself , at the close of his days , an object of contempt and the prey of corroding envy and of bitter disappointment . \ V . ¦ ¦ . m i-inr—rffifftrmtlOTTKin-nTi -i ¦ -
Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM .
BY J . WATKINS , IL . D .
Concluded from Page 254 .
1- ^ HE reception which the military orders met with Cyprus was suitable to their merits and distresses . They had an establishment in the island , and , to keep up their military spirit as well as to revenge their sufferings on the infidels , they fitted out a number . of gallie ? , in which they were very successful upon the trade of their enemies . Some slig ht attempts were made to regain a situation in the from
Holy Land , but they all failed for want of support Europe . Their principal reliance was on Philip the Fair , King of France , but that prince had other views , and neither the solicitations nor threats of the successor of St . Peter could draw him into a new croisade . Pope Boniface , who had made away with one of the best pontiffs that ever filled the chair , Celestine V . is supposed to have fallen in of the French
like manner a victim to the hatred and jealousy monarch , who by his artifices got a prelate of his own to be elected by the conclave . This was the Archbishop of Bourdeaux , who before his election engaged himself by oath on the sacrament to fulfil six conditions laid on him by his sovereign , the last of which was reserved as a secret till his coronation . _ to find that his in
Great was his surprise , and indeed his concern , - discreet obligation had bound him to exterminate the order of the Knig hts Templars . Those warriors had just quitted their asylum of Cyprus , and retired to tfieir different possessions in Europe , among which those of France were the most valuable and numerous . These were the objects for which the rapacious Philip pantedand
, for which he did not scruple to plunge into the depth of the extremes ! : injustice and cruelty . The Grand Master of that illustrious order tinder whom this savage persecution broke out , was JAMES DE MOLAY , descended of a noble family at Bourdeaux . Pope Clement , as this wretched prelate falsely called himself , had removed his court from Rome to Poitiers , where he summoned the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Generous Sentiments On The Prosperity Of Others, Conducive To Our Own Happiness.
never prospers . It enervates the mind , and throws a man out of the steady course of life to indulge in wild speculation , the sootier to obtain the great superiority for which he is so anxious . No wonder is it , therefore , that his time and his talents slip away insensibly from him-, and he finds himself , at the close of his days , an object of contempt and the prey of corroding envy and of bitter disappointment . \ V . ¦ ¦ . m i-inr—rffifftrmtlOTTKin-nTi -i ¦ -
Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM .
BY J . WATKINS , IL . D .
Concluded from Page 254 .
1- ^ HE reception which the military orders met with Cyprus was suitable to their merits and distresses . They had an establishment in the island , and , to keep up their military spirit as well as to revenge their sufferings on the infidels , they fitted out a number . of gallie ? , in which they were very successful upon the trade of their enemies . Some slig ht attempts were made to regain a situation in the from
Holy Land , but they all failed for want of support Europe . Their principal reliance was on Philip the Fair , King of France , but that prince had other views , and neither the solicitations nor threats of the successor of St . Peter could draw him into a new croisade . Pope Boniface , who had made away with one of the best pontiffs that ever filled the chair , Celestine V . is supposed to have fallen in of the French
like manner a victim to the hatred and jealousy monarch , who by his artifices got a prelate of his own to be elected by the conclave . This was the Archbishop of Bourdeaux , who before his election engaged himself by oath on the sacrament to fulfil six conditions laid on him by his sovereign , the last of which was reserved as a secret till his coronation . _ to find that his in
Great was his surprise , and indeed his concern , - discreet obligation had bound him to exterminate the order of the Knig hts Templars . Those warriors had just quitted their asylum of Cyprus , and retired to tfieir different possessions in Europe , among which those of France were the most valuable and numerous . These were the objects for which the rapacious Philip pantedand
, for which he did not scruple to plunge into the depth of the extremes ! : injustice and cruelty . The Grand Master of that illustrious order tinder whom this savage persecution broke out , was JAMES DE MOLAY , descended of a noble family at Bourdeaux . Pope Clement , as this wretched prelate falsely called himself , had removed his court from Rome to Poitiers , where he summoned the