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Knights Templar International
KTI-NOM A MODERN ORDER FOLLOWING AN ANCIENT TRADITION. Welcome to the Grand Priory of Knights Templar International: Nine hundred years after the founding of the Original Order of the Temple, and seven hundred years since it destruction, the Grand Priory of the Knights Templar International (KTI-NOM) is among the several Templar organisations keeping alive the noble and ancient Knights Templar traditions in the present day. On behalf of our more than 3,000 dedicated Knights and Dames of the Knights Templar worldwide, we welcome you to the International Website of one the largest Knight Templar Order in the world, and the only Templar Order in our opinion that hold rigidly to the ancient rites and traditions of the original order founded in 1119. We are an interdenominational association of active Christians, with both clergy and lay members from all walks of life. Our Order follows the highest chivalric ideals of the medieval Order of Knights Templar which was founded by Hugh de Payens in 1119, (but we make no claims to be direct inheritors of their noble history as others foolishly do), Ours is a modern Order built on sound activities benevolent, practical and diplomatic which aims to improve society as a whole. ANCIENT ORDER HISTORY The medieval Knights Templar, best known to us today as the famed warriors of the Crusades, were a devout military religious Order that uniquely combined the roles of knight and monk in a way the Western medieval world had never seen before. Originally they were known as the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, or, more simply, as the Knights Templar. In a famous letter written in the 1130s, In Praise of the New Knighthood, St Bernard of Clairvaux elevated the Templar Order above all other Orders of the day, establishing the image of the Templars as a fierce spiritual militia for Christ. He regarded them as a “new species of knighthood, previously unknown in the secular world…” To him, they were a unique combination of knight and monk; to later historians, they were the first military order, soon imitated by the Knights Hospitaller, by several Spanish orders and, by the end of the 12th century, by the Teutonic Knights. As a holy militia fighting for Christ, the Templars were willing to put aside the usual temptations of ordinary secular life for an arduous, dedicated life of service. Ever since then, the legacy of the Templars has been, first and foremost, the concept of service.
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