Knights Templar Pendant

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For a Catholic, committed to defending his faith … is it appropriate to where a pendant depicting a red cross or other Knights Templar icon? I belong to no group or membership.

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Perhaps this organization needs to be reborn eh? Especially so in view of recent events…
 
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Perhaps this organization needs to be reborn eh? Especially so in view of recent events…
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Yeah, that’s why I want to show my willingness to protect the Church, and by wearing it I also remind myself.

I just think with the links to Freemasonry, and the silly on-line clubs, the Templar’s have gotten a bad rap. They were true hero’s, and should be portrayed as such.
 
I have a grandfather with too many greats to put down that was a Knights Templar.

Just thought that was so terrific, and wish there was some kind of ancestry organization that we could join to show we were descended from one of them. Of course being a female that would probably be even more of a problem.😃
 
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Yeah, that’s why I want to show my willingness to protect the Church, and by wearing it I also remind myself.

I just think with the links to Freemasonry, and the silly on-line clubs, the Templar’s have gotten a bad rap. They were true hero’s, and should be portrayed as such.
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Yes the free masonry thing is unfortunate. Perhaps your own organization? Similar values?
 
Jaguar said:
For a Catholic, committed to defending his faith … is it appropriate to where a pendant depicting a red cross or other Knights Templar icon? I belong to no group or membership.

Thanks.
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Modern Catholic Dictionary:

TEMPLARS, THE KNIGHTS. The first and most powerful of the military orders founded in 1118 for the defense of Jerusalem. Ten years later, they were approved by the Church and placed under the Pope’s immediate jurisdiction. They followed the Benedictine Rule, taking the usual three vows and an additional crusader’s vow. As dauntless fighters and fervent religious, they drew many to their ranks. Many died as martyrs. Difficulties with the clergy and internal dissensions caused King Philip the Fair of France to organize a crusade against them. Pope Clement V’s approval for this crusade was then dishonestly secured. The Knights were tried for heresy and sacrilege, and their grand master was burned alive by order of Philip. In 1312 the Pope decreed the dissolution of the order but without condemning its members. It was mainly the greed of Philip IV that brought on the suppression of the Templars.
 
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