Templars Rising

A legend 900 years in the making rises again to protect the Church

The day before Easter 1119, 700 unarmed Jerusalem Christian pilgrims were savagely attacked by Muslims from two nearby cities. Three hundred were slaughtered, sixty more were taken as slaves—and nine men rose to avenge their deaths and pledge their lives to “the defense of Jerusalem and the protection of pilgrims.”

The Knights Templar, robed in white with crimson crosses and armed to protect Christians from threatening persecu...