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Beyond the Darkness - A Biography of Bede Griffiths (Paperback, New edition)
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Beyond the Darkness - A Biography of Bede Griffiths (Paperback, New edition)
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The great religious orders of Christianity - the Benedictines, the
Dominicans, the Franciscans and the Jesuits - are well known for
their monasteries, their learning, and their missions arouind the
world. But in the Middle Ages, to some extent surviving to this
day, there was another kind of religious order, one whose members'
profession was to bear arms in defence of Christendom. From humble
beginnings in the early 12th century, caring for the sick in the
Holy Land and protecting pilgrims, the military religious orders
spread out across Europe. Not only did they fight for the Holy
Places, they helped push back Islam in Spain and what is now
Portugal, and spread Christianity to the lands across the Baltic,
then still pagan. The Knights of St John, the Knights Templar, the
Knights of Santiago and of Calatrava, the Teutonic Knights and
others played a fearsome, sometimes brutal and often neglected role
in the history of Christianity. The wars, which they fought in the
name of Christ, helped shape the world as we know it
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