Today is a different type of day, nothing much to see, and a whole lots of straight Roman road for almost 30 miles.
The one entertaining thing that happened today I missed on film, after a short stop for a break and a sandwich, Kaz climbed to her feet and reached down for the strap of her backpack, one huge groan and she swung the bag up over her shoulder. Well,,,,she is exhausted and as the bad went around her back, it kept going, swung her around like an exhausted tag doll, and dumped her on her butt, exactly where she was sitting a few seconds before. She just lay there like a turtle on its back, wearing a backpack.
This is the road today , hard Roman road with rocks punching through which continually bruised you feet, this is hard walking when there isn’t anything to get your attention along the way.
Tonight we are staying in the ancestral home of Jacques de Molay, the last Templar Leader to be caught.
The Templar were sworn to poverty, and could not own any property, but were an elite and well trained fighting force. The Templar’s also started the first banking system, of which King Phillip 4th of France, and the French pope, took mighty advantage of. When they realized that they could not repay the debt, they did what we can’t do today, they eliminated the bank instead and the debt disappeared.
The King , ordered a synchronized arrest of all Templar’s, on oct 13, which was a Friday, 1307.
All Templar’s were persecuted by the inquisition and executed under the pretext of heresy, blasphemy, and fornication.
This is where the UNLUCKY FRIDAY THE 13th, comes from, Jacques de Molay was arrested in 1314 and burned at the stake. However, this legendary order still exists today in parts of the world, as a charitable organization, including the offsprings of the order that include the Freemason that we know today
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