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Templars in America: From the Crusades to the New World
Templars in America From the Crusades to the New World Author:Tim Wallace-Murphy, Marilyn Hopkins Templars in America is the extraordinary story of how two leading European families, steeped in the traditions and spirituality of the Knights Templar, combined forces in an attempt to create a new commonwealth in America, far beyond the repressive reach of the Church and the long arm of the Inquisition. Nearly a century before the voya... more »ges of Columbus, Henry St. Claire -- Earl of Orkney and Lord of Roslin -- placed his fleet under the command of two sons of the renowned Zeno family of Venice, and in 1396 sailed with them across the North Atlantic to America, much as his Viking forebears had done.« less