TEMPLARS.

 "They live," said Saint-Bernard (1) [3] , without having anything of their own, not even their will, they are, as a rule, simply dressed and covered with dust; their faces burnt from the heat of the sun, their gaze fixed and severe. With the approach of the combat, they arm themselves with faith within and iron without; their arms are their only adornment, they use them courageously in the greatest perils, without fear either the number or the strength of the barbarians. All their confidence is in the god of hosts ”and by fighting for his cause, they seek a certain victory or a holy and honorable death.

O the happy kind of life, in which one can expect death without fear, desire it with joy, and receive it with confidence. "

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It is not in the works written since their misfortunes that the impartial man must seek what were the customs, the conduct and the opinions of the Templars. Rarely do the outlaws find courageous apologists. It is to the contemporary historians of these knights, it is to the witnesses of their virtues and their exploits that it is necessary to address, and one must especially count for much the honorable testimonies of the popes, the kings and the princes who, soon after became their oppressors.

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