Return
of the Knights Templar
by Richard Salbato
The
Knights Templar were created by the Holy Father in
1099 AD after the First Christian Crusade against the Moslems because of the
Pope’s failure to unify Europe against the 400 year march of Moslems against
When
the Moslems attacked
A
100 years before the First Christian Crusade, over 200 years after Mohamed, the
Christians divided into Catholics and Orthodox, into an Eastern Christianity
and a Western Christianity. The Pope
ordered the First Crusade to save the separated Orthodox from the heavy persecution
of the Moslems simply because they were brother Christians even if in schism
and in hopes to unify the Christians again.
But
the Crusaders did not respect the Orthodox and instead subjected them to might
of the Crusade. The Holy Father did not have
control over the Kings of Europe or the Crusade. To avoid this in the future he formed his own
army, The Knights Templar.
Officially
the Knights Templar was created after the recovery of
Secret
writings about people like King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, the
Fisher King, and Knights like Percival, Gawain, Lancelot, and Robin Hood were
in fact, Templars, but not called that until 1099 AD. Fiction stories like “The True Story of the Holy
Grail”, written many years before the Templars, show many mysteries involving
this order.
The
Knights official name is the "Sovereign Order of Military Knights of St.
John of Jerusalem” and their sister order the “Hospitallers." The
Hospitallers built castles and protected them giving pilgrims places of refuge
throughout the Holy Land and
Because
of their vows of poverty, chastity, piety and obedience the Templars never lost
a battle in over 1500 years going back to the First Century before they were
called Templars. They also took vows to never
surrender and never back away from a fight unless the odds were more than 10 to
1 against them.
The
Knights were aided by cavalry, freres and
chaplains. Each Knight had about 10 of
these support aids. They invented banking by creating methods of travel without
money (only notes of credit), and protecting peoples money in the castles. They invented Hospitals by caring for people
in their Castles. They were involved in
manufacturing, import and export and the protection of Christians. They owned a large fleet of ships and the
entire
They
built and owned Castles throughout the known world: 5 in the Middle East, 15 in
Until
suppressed by the false charges King Philip of
Although
later found innocent of all charges by the Church, the Templars were suppressed
by the Pope in 1303 AD and changed their name.
They hid their treasures and a large fleet of ships.
Even
after the suppression they fought the Moslems under new names: as Knights of
Today
the Knights of Saint John are headquartered in
On October 7th Christians celebrate the
Feast of the Rosary, and rightfully so, but originally it was the Feast of the
anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto on Oct. 7, 1571 (268 years after the
suppression of the Knights Templar). It was the final battle of Islam (Moslems)
in their attempt to take over all of
On that date the forces of Islam battled the Holy
League in a crucial engagement at Lepanto, the modern day
The year is 1565. On the
These same Catholic Knights had been driven from their previous stronghold,
the Isle of Rhodes, in 1522, by the Ottoman Turks. The Moslems were pressing
hard across
Now, the Turks had raised a fleet of 181 ships, carrying some 30,000
soldiers, oared by 20,000 Christian slaves, and
The Turkish fleet fought
In 1566, Pius V knew the Ottoman Turks were not just going to go away and
leave
The fleet under Don Juan's command was some 300
ships strong, with over 50,000 men served the fleet as rowers, and another
30,000 were fighting soldiers, 80,000
Christians in 300 ships.
At dawn, on October 7, 1571, the two fleets met. Because the Moslems used
captured Christians to mind the oaring of the ships, the iron rams were removed from the Christian ships so as not to sink
and drown thousands of Christians. The
plan was for boarding and close quarter fighting.
Don Juan put up pictures of Our Lady of Guadalupe
in the 300 ships and ordered his entire navy to say the Rosary at the same time
that the Holy Father was praying the Rosary with a huge crowd in
When it was all over, 8,000 men who had sailed with
Don Juan were dead and another 16,000 wounded. The Moslems had over 25,000
dead, and thousands more wounded and captured. Over 12,000 Catholic galley
slaves had also been rescued from the Moslems.
At dawn, on October 7, 1571, Pope Pius V suddenly
interrupted the praying of the Rosary and cried out: "Our
great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given
the Catholic army." The Pope, of course, had no way of knowing that
the battle was won.
The Power of Mary’s Knights
Of course the victory of the Battle of Lepanto was
a victory of prayer, the prayer of the Rosary, and we must not belittle that,
but it was prayer and action and not prayer only. It reminds me of another battle in what
became
The Moslems (Moors) had driven the Christians all
the way to the
As he watched and prayed a light came from behind
him in the cave. He turned to look and
saw the Virgin Mary. She was pointing to
the other side of the valley on top of the other mountain. Pelayo turned to look and saw a large band of
Angels dressed in Knights armor on top of the mountain. He turned again to address the Virgin Mary
and She had disappeared leaving behind a small statue
of Herself.
Going out of the cave Pelayo watched as the Knight
Angels pushed large boulders down on the Moslems until almost all were killed. Inspired by this victory Pelayo continued to
fight the Moslems until he pushed them completely out of what is now
In 1989 Pope John Paul II prayed before this Statue
of Mary for peace in the world. In 2003
I prayed before this same Statue of Mary for understanding of how She would bring peace to the world.
The Moslem War Never Ended
The
battle, although a great victory for Catholic Europe, did not end the threat of
invasion, or completely break the power of the Ottoman Turks. More naval and
land battles would follow in the years to come, and
Today, the long clash between Christendom and Islam is still evident in the political
and ethnic geography of Europe, Africa,
Many Christian knights, soldiers, and sailors have died defending Christendom
against the onslaughts of Islam down through the centuries. Today, the borders
of many European countries,
But the enemy has not forgotten history. He remembers it all too well, and he
is still deadly serious about his religion. His goal over the years has not
changed in the slightest, and he is very patient. The enemy within is now just biding his time.
A
Moslem has to acknowledge that Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so
that it should rule over all the religions. The whole world would be subdued
under the rule of Islam. These are the
fundamentals of the religion that without them, one cannot be a Moslem. Islam is a religious civilization that engulfs
the individual, society and nation. Moslems
preach Islam as the rule of the world by. No
Moslem will deny this, not even the best of them.
What
happens if Jews and Christians don't want to live under the rules of Islam?
Then Islam has to fight them and this fighting is called Jihad. Jihad means war
against those people who don't want to accept the Islamic superior rule. That's
jihad.
The
world is described as Dar al-Islam (the house of Islam) - that's the place
where Islam rules - and the other part which is called Dar al-Harb - the house of war. Not the "house of
non-Muslims," but the "house of war." It is this house of war
which as to be, at the end of time, conquered. The world will continue to be in
the house of war until it comes under Islamic rule.
Every single Moslem is a soldier in this army. Every single Moslem that dies in
fighting for the spread of Islam is a shaheed
(martyr) no matter how he dies, because - and this is very important - this is
an eternal word between the two civilizations. It's not a war that stops. This
war is there because it was created by Allah. Islam must be the ruler. This is
a war that will not end.
Wherever you have Islam, you will have war.
What are the poor people in
the
The Divided World Today
Just like when the Moslems invaded and occupied
In
The very fact of so many Moslems live in the West and
all capable of terrorists acts results in an ipso facto blackmail of the
governments. The West saw how the
bombing of the railroads of
For these reasons the United Nations is absolutely useless
in the war against Islam. The United
Nations does nothing and they do it very well.
Before this year is out 1,500.000 Africans will die at the hands of Moslems
and the UN will do nothing about it.
Every year Catholics and other Christians are killed, beheaded, raped
and made homeless by Moslems in every country where there is at least a single
Moslem and the world does nothing about it but talk.
The American government, the only government in the
world that wants to stop Jihad, is handicapped by politicians who want to win
elections more than protect themselves or the world. In Iraqi 95% of all deaths
come from people sent into the country from
No unity in the world today just as it was in the
first onslaught of the Moslems for 800 years.
Private
Armies
Obviously I do not have much trust that any Western
Democracy, including the
Some of these private armies are stronger than the
governments where they operate, like
Do not think that the West does not have private
armies, there are hundreds of them and they are not secret. The
If you have a hard time believing this, just type in “private
armies” in your search program. My favorite
article on this is http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/global/sanchez.htm
but there are about 300,000 more web sites to look at.
Return of the Knights Templar
I think we need a return of the Knights Templar. Some
will think this is not according to a good Catholic’s interpretation of “Love”. But Pope Saint Pius V was not sinning when he
called for the first Christian Crusade.
The laws of physical force are: 1. Only for
self protection, 2. The protection of others from harm. 3. Only the force
needed to stop or protect from physical harm, 4. No vengeance, 5. No
punishment.
However, it would also be a sin against “love” for us
to stand by and allow someone to be harmed like we are doing in
But if the Knights Templar came back into
the world again, many Western Governments, and many multimillionaires would not
only back them with finances, but would use them in stead of using 18 to 25
year old soldiers with only 2 to 4 years of training. The voting public in Democratic Countries
would rather finance them than see their own people come home in body
bags.
The Knights Templar could move into any
country in the world without the politics of treaties and government red tape.
They would only operate as a protective army with no personal ambitions except
to protect. They could move in and out
at a moments notice from any place in the world.
Islamic radicals are
instigating and perpetuating terrorist campaigns, insurgencies, civil wars,
minority suppression, ethnic cleansing and/or genocide in Afghanistan, Algeria,
Bangladesh, Belgium, Chad, Chechnya, Dagestan, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia,
France, Gambia, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kashmir,
Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands,
Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, territories administered by the "Palestinian
Authority," Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia,
Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, The United States of
America, Yemen, and Zanzibar. The rest of the world is held hostage to fear.
Can any country help in all these
countries? No! However, an International
Army designed just for protection and nothing more could operate from many
places and solve problems in a swift and complete way without considering what
is politically correct or worrying about a terrorist retaliation.
I
do not see the Holy Father publicly supporting such an army because too many
Catholics living in Moslem countries would be in great danger. I believe, however, that the time will come
when no other choice will present itself.
It is time though for Catholics with some financial means to consider
putting this together and to support again a military branch of the Knights of
St. John.
Am
I being radical? I do not think so. Many Catholics are waiting for God to do
it. Others depend on prayer only. But all I read about Moral Theology is that
we must use both “prayer and action”. God uses our hands to do His work. We
must be our brother’s keeper and not turn away with a look of compassion and a
prayer. We must be the “Good Samaritan”
and go to the aid of people in need especially to protect life, not only in
abortion clinics but in countries where the innocent are being slaughtered just
for not being Moslem.
I
may, in fact, organize this myself. It is time for the Knights Templar to come
out of hiding.
Richard
Salbato
October 16,
2006
Reverences
from:
Brigitte
Gabriel
Mary
Jo Anderson
Robert
McMullen