After Templar rescues a child who has been kidnapped by a mob boss ( assassinating the gangster in the process ), the whole city learns that the Saint is on the job.

Slavisa Pesci, " an information technologist and amateur scholar ", superimposed Leonardo da Vinci's version of The Last Supper with its mirror image ( with both images of Jesus lined up ) and claimed that the resultant picture has a Templar knight on the far left, a woman in orange holding a swaddled baby in her arms to the left of Christ, and the Holy Grail in the form of a chalice in front of Christ.

The woman, Sonia Delmar, subsequently joins Templar's fight against Marius ( who Templar learns is the man who killed Norman ) and Prince Rudolf, even going so far as to allowing herself to be kidnapped by the villains.

Templar is taken to a remote location in New Jersey but manages to escape his fate thanks to the intervention of Fay Edwards, a beautiful young woman who happens to be a cold-blooded killer, and who claims to be working for The Big Fellow.

This is also the first Saint book to suggest a serious relationship between Templar and a woman other than his longtime girlfriend Patricia Holm, who is not mentioned once in this book ( she returns in subsequent volumes, however ).

" In the year 1128, Bernard assisted at the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar, who soon became the ideal of Christian nobility.

Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.

He takes umbrage at de Bois-Guilbert's sinful passion, which is in violation of his Templar vows ; and decides to subject Rebecca, who he thinks has cast a spell on de Bois-Guilbert, to a trial for witchcraft.

King Richard, who had left Kyningestun soon after Ivanhoe's departure, arrives at the Templar Preceptory, banishes the Templars and declares that the Malvoisins ' lives are forfeit for having aided in the plots against him.

A nobleman who was interested in participating in the Crusades might place all his assets under Templar management while he was away.

The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the Order or its Rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.

Chaplains, constituting a third Templar class, were ordained priests who saw to the Templars ' spiritual needs.

It was Bernard de Clairvaux and founder Hugues de Payens who devised the specific code of behaviour for the Templar Order, known to modern historians as the Latin Rule.

One theory of the origins of Freemasonry claims direct descent from the historical Knights Templar through its final fourteenth-century members who took refuge in Scotland whose King, Robert the Bruce was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church at the time, or other countries where the Templar suppression was not enforced.

He is memorable in history for suppressing the order of the Knights Templar and executing some of its members, and as the Pope who moved the Curia from Rome to Avignon, ushering in the period known as the Avignon Papacy.

The Saint Steps In reveals that Templar is operating on behalf of a mysterious individual known as Hamilton who appears again in the next WWII-era Saint book, The Saint on Guard.

During a trip to Dunfermline in 1879, he was mocked by the Chief Templar, who told him his poetry was very bad.

Freemasons who reach this degree may continue to Cryptic Masonry or go straight to Knights Templar ( where permitted — requirements vary in different jurisdictions ).

Unlike other Masonic bodies which only require a belief in a Supreme Being regardless of religion, membership in the Knights Templar is open only to Christian Masons who have completed their Royal Arch and in some jurisdictions their Cryptic Degrees.

The Knights Templar, who believed the Dome of the Rock was the site of the Temple of Solomon, gave it the name " Templum Domini " and set up their headquarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Dome for much of the 12th century.

The Knights Templar, who believed the Dome of the Rock was the site of the Temple of Solomon, later set up their headquarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Dome for much of the 12th century.

* Templar, a group of men and women who sought to restore order after the Fall.

The Knights Templar had a strong presence in La Rochelle since before the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who exempted them from duties and gave them mills in her 1139 Charter.

Its original name derived from the Knights Templar, who used to own a manor in Warwick.

After an occupation by the Knights Templar and the rule of Isaac Komnenos, the island in 1192 came under the rule of the Lusignan family, who established the Kingdom of Cyprus.

These rumors are likely related to the fact that the medieval historian the Templar of Tyre wrote about a Mongol general named " Mulay " who occupied Syria and Palestine for a few months in early 1300.

Another variation on this story was told by the contemporary chronicler Ferretto of Vicenza, who applied the idea to a Neapolitan Templar brought before Clement V, whom he denounced for his injustice.

Partner's book provides a quote from a poem written in a Provençal dialect by a troubadour who is thought to have been a Templar.

Guy of Lusignan became king of Jerusalem in 1186, in right of his wife Sibylla, after the death of Sibylla's son Baldwin V. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was at this time divided between the " court faction " of Guy, Sibylla, and relative newcomers to the kingdom such as Raynald of Châtillon, as well as Gerard of Ridefort and the Knights Templar ; and the " nobles ’ faction ", led by Raymond III of Tripoli, who had been regent for the child-king Baldwin V and had opposed the succession of Guy.

Following the night's meal, the palmer observes one of the Normans, the Templar Brian de Bois-Guilbert, issue orders to his Saracen soldiers to follow Isaac of York after he leaves Rotherwood in the morning and relieve him of his possessions.

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

Throughout history it has been claimed that Freemasonry itself was founded by the Knights Templar or that the Knights Templar took refuge in Freemasonry after their persecution.

Although it has been proposed that the witch-hunt developed in Europe from the early 14th century, after the Cathars and the Templar Knights were suppressed, this hypothesis has been rejected independently by two historians ( Cohn 1975 ; Kieckhefer 1976 ).

The yard ( named after an ancient mill owned by the Knights Templar ) is now reduced in size as part of it has become a retail park ' Leyton Mills ', whilst the rest has been renovated to serve as a depot for high speed trains.

In August, the unfinished castle at Jacob's Ford fell to Saladin after a brief siege, with the slaughter of half its Templar garrison.

If the player makes the choice to side with the Templar faction at the end of the game, after the cinematic, the quote appears, taken from both the novel and Proverbs 21: 16-" He that wandereth out of the way of understanding, shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Worldwide fame arrived after Lew Grade cast Moore as Simon Templar in a new adaptation of The Saint, based on the novels by Leslie Charteris.

Some 400 years after the death of de Molay and the dissolution of the Knights Templar, the fraternal order of Freemasonry began to emerge in northern Europe.

One early chronicler, Simon de St. Bertin, implies that the Knights Templar originated earlier, before the death of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1100: " While he was reigning magnificently, some had decided not to return to the shadows of the world after suffering such dangers for God's sake.

The Commandery region itself fell into the control of his descendant Philip IV in 1307, after the suppression of the Knights Templar.

A subsequent revolt after Richard left for the Holy Land caused him to doubt the island as a worthwhile gain and eventually prompted him to sell the territory to the Knights Templar.

It is named after The Temple, a long-demolished Templar fortification that once stood in the square named for it.

They sailed first to Cyprus and spent the winter on the island, negotiating with various other powers in the east ; the Latin Empire set up after the Fourth Crusade asked for his help against the Byzantine Empire of Nicaea, and the Principality of Antioch and the Knights Templar wanted his help in Syria, where the Muslims had recently captured Sidon.

Although Mleh had taken vows as a Templar, but after quarrelling with Thoros II and attempting to assassinate him, he fled to Nur ed-Din.

In 1894, he claimed to have been " enlightened " after finding the tombstone of a Knight Templar, and began developing his theories of " blue-blond aryanism " and " lower races ".

The chapel, built 150 years after the dissolution of the Knights Templar, supposedly has many Templar symbols, such as the " Two riders on a single horse " that appear on the Seal of the Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar were founded after the First Crusade of 1096 to ensure the safety of European pilgrims to Jerusalem.

Nevertheless, the theories continue to persist and are sometimes actively encouraged, as in the use of " heraldic " street names ( Archerhill Road, Arrowsmith Avenue, Ivanhoe Road, Minstrel Road, Talisman Road, Templar Avenue, Turret Road ) by Glasgow Corporation in Knightswood, even though Knightswood only appears in the records from the 18th century, long after the days of knights.