. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . t Anagni hadonly been effected spendendo molta moneta; the disastrousbattle of Courtrai and the inglorious Flemish wars hadexhausted the royal treasury ; the debasement of thecoinage had availed nought, and Philip turned his lustful eyeson a once powerful lay order, whose wealth and pride werethe talk of Christendom. After the capture of Jerusalem and the establishment thereof a Christian kingdom, pilgrims flocked to the holy , however, piteous stories reached Jerusalem of thecruel spoliation and m
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . t Anagni hadonly been effected spendendo molta moneta; the disastrousbattle of Courtrai and the inglorious Flemish wars hadexhausted the royal treasury ; the debasement of thecoinage had availed nought, and Philip turned his lustful eyeson a once powerful lay order, whose wealth and pride werethe talk of Christendom. After the capture of Jerusalem and the establishment thereof a Christian kingdom, pilgrims flocked to the holy , however, piteous stories reached Jerusalem of thecruel spoliation and murder of unarmed pilgrims on theirjourney from the coast by hordes of roving lightly-armedBedouins, against whom the heavily-armed Franks werepowerless. The evil was growing well-nigh intolerable when,in 1118, two young French nobles, Hugh of Payens andGodfrey of St. Omer, with other seven youths of highestbirth, bound themselves into a lay community, with theobject of protecting the pilgrims way. They took the usualvow of poverty, charity and obedience ; St. Bernard drew T*l««y. Ile de la Cite. DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLARS 109 up their Rule—and we may be sure it was austere enough—pope and patriarch confirmed it. Their garb was a mantleof purest white linen with a red cross embroidered on theshoulder. The order was housed in a wing of the kingspalace, which was built on the site of Solomons Temple,hard by the Holy Sepulchre, and its members calledthemselves the Poor Soldiers of Christ and of SolomonsTemple. Their banner, half of black, half of white, wasinscribed with the device non nobis Domine. Theirbattle-cry Beauceant, and their seal, two figures on horse-back, have not been satisfactorily interpreted—the latterprobably portrays a knight riding away with a rescuedpilgrim. Soon the little band of nine was joined byhundreds of devoted youths from rich and noble families ;endowments to provide them with arms and horses andservants flowed in, and thus was formed the mos
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