Order of the Knights Templar order conceivably not have existed and

conceivably not have existed and therefore be contingent

my holy mountain

is not worthy of me

The Hospitallers as well as the Templars are considered by the pontificate as Universal Orders

Order of the Knights Templar order conceivably not have existed andAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8