Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 246
5 The Templars were bound to go to mass three times a week, and tocommunicate thrice a year ; they wore a white robe symbolical of purity, towhich Pope Eugenius III. added a red cross, to remind them of their oath tobe always ready to shed their blood in defence of the Christian religion.Their… … Fig. 146.—Knight of Malta. Fig. 147.—Templar in Travelling Dress. Fac-similes of Woodcuts by Jost Amman, in his work entitled Clcri totius Bomana) ecclesias . . . habitus ; 4to., Frankfort, 1585. give no ransom. However irksome might prove the observance of theseregulations, they were not allowed…
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