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The Knights Templar.
The procurator demanded if it were probable that this Templar should return to them for the chartreux , and submit to arcorrection so long and austere , if he had discovered amongst his brethren of the Order all the abominations that were alleged to blacken their character ? and he insisted on being heard with his superiors and
the deputies of the whole Order in a full Council , " to the end , " said he , " that our innocence may be demonstrated in the face of all Christendom . " Notwithstanding this defence they preceeded to pass sentence . Some were entirely acquitted ; others were condemned to canonical penance , after which they were to be set at liberty . Of this class were those Templars who adhered to the confession they had made of their
pretended crimes ; and had , to show their abhorrence of the Order , laid aside the habit and shaved their long beards . The Templars , on the contrary , who had retracted their former confession and persisted in their protestations of innocence , were treated with excessive rigour . Fifty-nine of them , amongst whom was
a chaplin of the King ' s , were degraded as relapsed heretics by the Bishop of Paris , and delivered over to the secular authorities . They ivere carried out of the gate St . Antoine , and burnt alive at a sloio fire . All of them , in the midst of the flames , called upon the holy name of God : and what is more surprising , thez-e was not one of those
fiftynine , who to save himself from so terrible an execution , would accept of the pardon , which was offered them in the King ' s name , provided they would renounce their protestations .
In several other parts of France great numbers of them manifested the same constancy in the midst of the flames . They burned them ; but they could never extort from them a confession of the crimes laid to their charge . "A thing astonishing indeed , " says the Bishop of Lodeve , a
cotemporary historian , "that all those unfortunate victims , executed in the most terrible manner , gave no other reason for their retractation than the shame and remorse they felt for having through the violence of the rack confessed crimes of which they affirmed themselves to be innocent . " *
The first session of the Council of Vienne , in Dauphiny , commenced on the 16 th October , 1311 . There were present above three hundred Bishops , exclusive of the Abbots , Priors , and most learned Doctors ,
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The Knights Templar.
The procurator demanded if it were probable that this Templar should return to them for the chartreux , and submit to arcorrection so long and austere , if he had discovered amongst his brethren of the Order all the abominations that were alleged to blacken their character ? and he insisted on being heard with his superiors and
the deputies of the whole Order in a full Council , " to the end , " said he , " that our innocence may be demonstrated in the face of all Christendom . " Notwithstanding this defence they preceeded to pass sentence . Some were entirely acquitted ; others were condemned to canonical penance , after which they were to be set at liberty . Of this class were those Templars who adhered to the confession they had made of their
pretended crimes ; and had , to show their abhorrence of the Order , laid aside the habit and shaved their long beards . The Templars , on the contrary , who had retracted their former confession and persisted in their protestations of innocence , were treated with excessive rigour . Fifty-nine of them , amongst whom was
a chaplin of the King ' s , were degraded as relapsed heretics by the Bishop of Paris , and delivered over to the secular authorities . They ivere carried out of the gate St . Antoine , and burnt alive at a sloio fire . All of them , in the midst of the flames , called upon the holy name of God : and what is more surprising , thez-e was not one of those
fiftynine , who to save himself from so terrible an execution , would accept of the pardon , which was offered them in the King ' s name , provided they would renounce their protestations .
In several other parts of France great numbers of them manifested the same constancy in the midst of the flames . They burned them ; but they could never extort from them a confession of the crimes laid to their charge . "A thing astonishing indeed , " says the Bishop of Lodeve , a
cotemporary historian , "that all those unfortunate victims , executed in the most terrible manner , gave no other reason for their retractation than the shame and remorse they felt for having through the violence of the rack confessed crimes of which they affirmed themselves to be innocent . " *
The first session of the Council of Vienne , in Dauphiny , commenced on the 16 th October , 1311 . There were present above three hundred Bishops , exclusive of the Abbots , Priors , and most learned Doctors ,