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Seven Years, Seven Centuries |
At last the souls of the murdered Knights and Brethren of the Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici (Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon), or as they are popularly known, the Knights Templar, may now find peace and rest. Our Hero and Martyr, Jacques DeMolay, the Templar's last Grand Master, who was falsely accused, tortured and was burned at the stake together with his Brother Knights by order of the Church, can now be finally vindicated.
Come October 13 will be the 700th Anniversary of the crackdown and mass arrests of the Templars including their last Grand Master, Jacques DeMolay. They were arrested in 1307 and for seven years they suffered torture under the hands of the inquisition. On the seventh year after their arrest, in 1314, Jacques DeMolay and two of his Brother Knights were burned at the stake. By a strange coincidence, it is on the seventh century after DeMolay was burned at the stake, that the mysteries of the Order of the Knights Templar could soon be laid bare after the Vatican announced the release of a crucial document which has not been seen for almost 700 years.
According to the news published in the website of The Telegraph UK, , and also from BBC , a new book, Processus contra Templarios, will be published by the Vatican's Secret Archive on Oct 25, and promises to restore the reputation of the Templars, whose leaders were burned as heretics."For 700 years we have believed that the Templars died as cursed men, and this absolves them."
After 700 years, Oh Great Son of France, our Hero and Martyr, "Jacques DeMolay, thou art avenged!" |
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Our New and Improved Website |
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We have reformatted and redesigned our website into a more aesthetically and technically improved one. We have decided to change the content and form of our website to accomodate our growing community in the internet and provide more interaction among our members. From its original title, The University Brotherhood, we now renamed it as The e-Park of the DeMolay-Rainbow of Mindanao State University for the simple reason that MSU DeMolay is always not without its Rainbow connection. We're one family in the campus and we will remain as such, even in cyberspace.
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A Bit about The Original Nine DeMolays
(As posted in the DeMolay International Website Forum by Dad Dale Dietzman)
Extracted from a speech by Grand Orator and PGM Reese Harrison, March 18, 1994:
Ivan M. Bentley
lived in Louis Lower's neighborhood. Crowned a Chevalier in 1920. Died in an accident in 1921. His death made him the first Ruby in the emblem.
Louis G. Lower
1st Obligated DeMolay; PMC of Mother Chapter. Crowned a Chevalier in 1920. 1st Active LOH Legionnaire on May 28, 1926; Killed July 18, 1943. The Second Ruby.
Edmund Marshall
lived next door to Elmer Dorsey. Crowned a Chevalier 1920. Graduated from University of Missouri. President of the Kansas City Board of Trade. Died November 8, 1966. The Fourth Ruby. (Dad Frank Land was the third Ruby).
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