The tiny church at the heart of the Knights Templar - BBC REEL

Just outside the city walls of Tomar, the last Portugese town to be commissioned for construction by the Knights Templar, lies a tiny church with a surprisingly important connection to this once mysterious and secretive religious organisation.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
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[@Alfablue227]

Portuguese history is simply fascinating, period! 🇵🇹❤️

[@edstar83]

Iberian history in general. There wouldnt be a Portugal without the Reconquista. As a Spaniard of Galician heritage. Today I'm Christian and speak Castilian aka Spanish instead of Arabic praying to Allah 20 times a day thanks to Visigothic Nobleman Don Pelayo. Valiant warrior King of the North. King of Asturias. Crowned KIng by the loyal men who fought alongside him. Seeder of the Reconquista, and their descendants who continued forming small Christian Kingdoms in the North, fighting and resisting for 700 years. Generation to generation ( instead of running away into France) slowly expanding until the whole of Iberia was free of the peaceful messengers of islam in 1492AD when the remaining Christian Kingdoms united to become Spain. ( Except for the Kingdom of Portugal because they're special but I still love them) Today the gates of Toledo have once again been opened into Europa and the West. *Reconquista II Intensifies*

[@jamesbrean8004]

Knights templar is my childhood I love the culture

[@suguspjr]

“We know that where there were Templars, there were tunnels” This should be popular wisdom.

[@jkim6200]

Prominent Portuguese figures during the Age of Exploration were Templars or later Military Order of Christ.

[@alisparkes]

Visited this church a few years back and it does have a very unusual atmosphere - enjoyed learning about it and the friendly ladies we met there

[@randomreviews1461]

What's with the star? Not sure I like the look of that.

[@JustinCase-ld4ih]

​@@randomreviews1461A pentagram, investigate more

[@josesilva4171]

Portugal's history is incredible when considering its small population. They've created the global world we live in today (with the discovery of sea routes that linked all continents for the first time). Without a doubt the templars played a role in this. To venture on uncharted open Ocean you had to be "crazy" or incredibly driven by religion.

[@davidedbrooke9324]

No they didn’t, good explorers but the world today was not founded after them.

[@josesilva4171]

@@davidedbrooke9324 I am referring to the concept of a global world (places, people and trade interconnected for the first time). The Dutch perfected it and then the British claimed it.

[@davidedbrooke9324]

@@josesilva4171 Claimed it? We traded then too, it developed as all things do, you can’t invent trade.

[@josesilva4171]

@@davidedbrooke9324 Trade existed before but I am referring to globalisation. That is the legacy of the great age of discovery (led by the Portuguese). By “claimed it” I meant the British superseded to the Dutch who had in turn superseded to the Portuguese after the “spice wars”.

[@davidedbrooke9324]

@@josesilva4171 Ah now I see what you mean, fair enough. This stuff is all intertwined as history always is, never as simple as it is when first looking! Like the trees the roots though hidden are still important intertwined and difficult to see where it all leads. 🖖🖖

[@chloetiu5813]

That church is beautiful and its dark history

[@paulacunha6792]

Sendo Tomarense tenho imenso orgulho da história da minha cidade 😊

[@gregoirejeanfrancoisdemets5224]

Não é pra menos...Lindo lugar e importante História. Sonho em conhecer.

[@user-td6ny2oq6e]

as well you should be proud

[@luqmanbenyahya2651]

I bet Ezio Auditore de Firenze used to do leap of faith from its tower

[@MostPowerfulPMofIndia]

Salute to the knights templar from me a Hindu brahmin from India

[@brycesattler2301]

HAR HAR MAHADEV 💚 💛 ❤️ *SALUTE BACK TO INDIA FROM THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR ARJUNA* JAI SHRI RAM 🏹 🐚 💙 🌊 🌸 🌺 JAI SHRI SHAKTI ADISHAKTI PARA ADISHAKTI ❤️ 🌹 ❤️

[@thakatathaka1876]

Thanks my friend good idea

[@hoseA-sy4ld]

even today we struggle

[@FrancJ5793]

Música a 3:23 -> Sown In Tears - Brett [Stings]

[@suevialania]

💚💚❤❤

[@JohnBruffett-tw4ul]

John Robert Bruffett Junior 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️

[@adrian_de_graaf]

Cool. Let me sharpen my hidden blade 😉

[@NicerayNicemon-po2qr]

⚔️🕯🌎

[@luisteixeiraneves4211]

O Almansor, não. Esse foi até Santiago. Não os Almorávidas, sim os Almóhadas.

[@DeltaReconnaissance]

Do you know what is hidden there..?

[@lunog]

Some say that the lost treasure of the Templars order is hidden somewhere in those caves.

[@JelMain]

@@lunog No, the Arca Dei went to Brussels.9

[@run4funs24]

How far from fatima is this cathedral?

[@JelMain]

Very easy: from the visit of Prince Lalibela of Ethiopia to Jerusalem, bringing news of an Arca in Axum, beyond the Muslim lands, but not inaccessible: there's a report in the Old Testament, iirc in Solomon's time, of a circumnavigation.

[@stewartquark1661]

Am I allowed to post a very brief video that should be of interest to anyone for whom the Templars hold great mystique????

[@joyce2077]

🤣🙏👍

[@user-td6ny2oq6e]

knights of christ

[@tonireed4123]

No, the woman is important because one has to balance themselves with the opposite. So one goes within and couples with the divine to raise one's frequency--Golden Mean and get raised up a true son or daughter within. Mary Magdalene was Jesus' equal in the Christ and Tomar is really Tamar their daughte. However it is the spiritual self that is important that you work toward raising the seed in well tilled earth - so that you become initiated and regenerated.

[@JelMain]

This links to the Brussels heritage.

[@justinnelson1565]

They didn't go to the Temple to "Worship the ancestors". That is what Pagans do. They went there as a symbolic act. Jesus Christ descended into the bowels of the earth, to rescue those that were imprisoned there. The Templars go underground as a symbolic act to rescue and defend those in Darkness, and bring them out into the Light of Christ. This is the hidden agenda, simply this, to Lead those in Darkness to the True Light of Jesus Christ, to show people the Path to Salvation, and to Defend those who seek to Worship God. There are, however, Dark Templars who seek to corrupt the Truth. This is the origin of Freemasonry and Baphomet. They worshipped Satan, the Dark Templars sought to bring those from the Light into Darkness, and chain those in Darkness so that they would stay there forever. They brought the "Sacred Feminine" to the forefront as the Pagans once did. It is a corruption, it is of Satan and will go to the Darkness with him...

[@justinnelson1565]

@RR PLAN C Jesus Christ is God. The Name Jesus Christ means Salvation The Messiah or God(The Anointed One) is Salvation. It is the same name from the Old Testament, Jehovah Yeshua, which means God my Salvation. God has seven sacred names in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ is Jehovah and Yahweh. The Name Yahweh and Jehovah mean the same, I AM. I AM is the title of God forever. Jesus said "Before Abraham was, I AM"(John 8:48-49). The Old Testament says "Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me." (Hosea 13:4) Jesus Christ is both LORD and SAVIOR. He is God. Jesus Christ is the God of the Old Testament, the God who parted the waters, the God who caused the water to fall on Pharaohs Army, the God who shows Mercy to His friends, and fights like a Lion against His enemies. God even Loves His enemies as well, hoping that they will return the Love. But ultimately, "The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is His Name." (Exodus 15:3) God is a Warrior, Jesus Christ is a WARRIOR, mighty in battle, and fights with a fierceness against His enemies. Blessed Mary was most definitely a Virgin when the Holy Spirit came upon her, and caused God to be born to her...

[@annierayman6644]

lol

[@johnnykay7411]

@Justin Nelson What a shame you believe yourself a teacher. I mean that as gently as I can convey the sentiment.

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

יהוה يهوه YaHWeH ​@@justinnelson1565

[@XeiDaMoKaFE]

Zero orgulho quando se aprende sobre a verdade real

[@joaobeloferreira9823]

E qual a verdade real? A dos teus valores do século XXI? Que são quais? Aprende a contextualizar as coisas.

[@XeiDaMoKaFE]

@@joaobeloferreira9823 os meus valores são o oposto dos valores dos maçons / templarios

[@universoALC]

@@XeiDaMoKaFE vai dar banho ao cão!

[@XeiDaMoKaFE]

@@universoALC nem pa ad hominem serves

[@universoALC]

@@XeiDaMoKaFE que se passou??? Ficaste insatisfeito da ultima vez que me chu .paste a pi ro. ca pq querias ma .mar mais leit .inho???

[@randomreviews1461]

I dont like that star on the church.

[@roaxeskhadil]

Henry the Navigator was born 90 years too late to have been a Templar, so half of what's said here is automatically bunk. Which is a pity, as it is an interesting and rather beautiful site, and has associated history and legend enough to not need further embellishment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar#Arrests,_charges_and_dissolution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Henry_the_Navigator

[@mavrick552]

in portugal the knights templar were not persecuted upon the dissolution of the order and 7 years later the portuguese king petitioned the pope for the creation of a religious military order called "Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo". usually gets abreviated to ordem de cristo and it was basically the same stuff as the knights templar, it even had the same mission, henry the navigator was the grandmaster of that order, sure he wasn't a templar technically, but it's a question of semantics only. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Order_of_Christ

[@roaxeskhadil]

@@mavrick552 Thanks, didn't know that. Reading up on the matter, I disagree on the "semantics only" part, but I can accept that this is what was meant and thus stand corrected.

[@pedrof3364]

@@roaxeskhadil you surely sound obnoxious. Who asked you what is correct or not, you tremendous piece of shait? You´re ignorant as one can be, dont know a rats arse about the history of the Templars, but are quite quick making wikipedia conclusions and shouting your ignorance to the world. Please god, just come already and wash all this trash away..

[@FranciscoSmirsley]

You don't know (sorry to say this) what you're talking about. The Templars carried on with a different name, Idea of King D. Diniz who tried (successfully) to skirt the Pope's order and still preserve the good relationship he had with the Templars, who carried on with a different name.

[@JustinCase-ld4ih]

All portuguese Kings were Knight Templars