Order of the Knights Templar catholic For God has not spurned

For God has not spurned or disdained the misery of this poor wretch

The Ordinis Fratrum & Militum Hospitalis Leprosorum S

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

Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see

represent the central themes of the Christian faith

Order of the Knights Templar catholic For God has not spurnedAfter 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