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II International Conference Confirmed for October 2020

In a meeting in Almourol / Vila Nova da Barquinha this week, the local municipality confirmed the final dates for the II Conference “Order of the Temple – Spiritual Chivalry and Templarism”. Taking place at the Templar Interpretation Center (CITA) in Almourol , Portugal, the International Conference follows the groundbreaking event that joined together in Barquinha experts from all over the world and different branches of the Order in October 2019.

The current COVID19 pandemic has severely disrupted traveling plans and large events. Because of that, it was decided that the Conference will have an opening session on October 13 for a limited number of invited guests, when a new exhibition will be inaugurated in the Interpretation Center, followed the 17 and 18 of October by a mixed online and live event from the auditorium in Barquinha, Portugal.

The full Program will be available soon. If you are interested in attending online (free), please send us an email to conference@templarcorps.org or stay in touch with these pages.

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Templar Corps Signs Protocol with Sigillum Templi, main Spanish speaking Templar study club

The Templar Corps International (templarcorps.org) – Academy has signed a Protocol with Sigillum Templi the largest and most important Spanish speaking Templar research club. The first joint initiative is an online Study Course in Spanish about the Order of the Temple, starting the 25th of July.

In a short interview, Victor Padilla Nieto, Administrador General, gives us an idea of what we can expect from this collaboration.

TEMPLAR GLOBE: Victor, tell us about Sigilum Templi, how old it is and what kind of research or investigation you have published?

VICTOR PADILLA NIETO: Sigillum temple is a project created in 2015 by a multidisciplinary group that
studies History, mainly in the period of the historical Order of the Temple. This involves a series of lines of research to understand and subsequently disclose the environment where the Poor Companions of Christ appeared and their heritage.

TG: How can we join Sigilum Templi?

VPN: We have different ways of making this work available: a very dynamic Facebook page , a Medieval blog with more than 1500 entries, a radio program program that investigates the Hidden Keys to History and a website where research can be shared and with a private area for members.

TG: Is there a bulletin or magazine to subscribe?

VPN: Yes. For a few months now we have had two types of publications. A free and digital one called Cartularium Templi, which is published in PDF and distributed via Facebook and the web, and another under annual subscription, the Codice Sigillum, printed in full color with about 100 pages, authored by the most prestigious columnists and connoisseurs of the Middle Ages in general and of the Order of the Temple in particular.

TG: How important is the history of the Templars in the context of the Reconquista?

VPN: The importance of the reconquest in the Iberian peninsula by the order of the Temple is vital. The different peninsular Christian kingdoms cannot be conceived without their help. Mallorca, Valencia, Murcia, Seville, Algarve, among many others, are territories won by the Temple to the different kingdoms mentioned. Their participation in the conquest of Calatrava the old and the unequivocal victory in the Navas de Tolosa in which the chronicles highlight the Knights Templar as the most fearless.

TG: What motivates this partnership with Templar Corps?

VPN: The main reason for this association with Templar Corps is to be able to spread the story without dogmatism. Templar Corps is endorsed by a team of freethinkers that differentiates them from most entities with other, more or less, purposes with an agenda. Both Sigillum Templi and the Templar Corps are self-sufficient and independent entities.

TG: What can a student of this Course expect to learn?

VPN: In this Course, students will become fully aware of the vital importance of the Order in the Iberian Peninsula, and not only this, but they will also learn basic esoteric knowledge to understand the reason for many of their actions and the meaning behind them.

TG: Are science, art, architecture, knowledge and Templar spirituality relevant today or is it just a nostalgic reminder of the past?

VPN: Of course they are important. Nothing to do with nostalgia for the past. Templar iconography reveals to the initiate a path to esotericism. The sacred geometry applied to constructions has been increasingly valued with the application of new technologies of the 21st century. The organization of the Commanderies is a milestone in the Middle Ages. Food is regulated and applied with notions of dietetics and food hygiene… In summary, the continuity that ensures that the Order of the Temple is part of the Great Ancestral Tradition, shows the enormous knowledge that has been transmitted to all and for all.

Thank you Victor. We wish you the best for the Course.

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Templar Corps draws on past experience

The Templar Corps International website (templarcorps.org) is the latest initiative promoted by the Order in association with the Templar Globe and a few partners around the world. Despite being new and based on technology, the Templar Corps is also firmly based on the very ancient idea of serving God by serving mankind. And service to others has been at the center stage of Templar activities in many countries. The Templar Corps today draws on past experience and a determined will to help the less fortunate.

Speaking of “center stage”, Portuguese musical duo Anjos (brothers Nelson and Sérgio Rosado), with a career spanning over 20 years of raving success, approached the Templar Corps searching for computers for the “Instituto dos Ferroviários do Sul e Sueste”, an organization that provides aid, food and education to over 65 children of railway workers. With COVID19, general classes had to be taken online and homework submitted and discussed using digital tools. Many children do not have computers at home.

The Templar Corps, together with the Service of the Hospitalar Officer Fr+ Miguel da Fabiana and Grand Feytor Fr+ Ricardo Salum, manged to obtain, in record time 6 computers, that were submitted to all the necessary testing and completed with appropriate software and hardware (monitors, mouse, cables, etc.) and later delivered to the institution in need in Barreiro, Portugal. The children were delighted to receive the computers. Their wonderful drawings were the best “thank you” notes we could aim for. “Thank you Angles for your offer”, could be read across the table.

Just two months before the Service of the Hospitalar Officer Fr+ Miguel da Fabiana and D+ Vera Lúcia took the Templar Corps on another mission: to find a used fridge for the “Dom Maior” Association. The Association was founded over 10 years ago, after the parents of a very young boy were informed by their doctor that the child had a fatal very rare and incurable disease and would die within months. They organized, pulled help from friends, family and strangers and kept on looking for a cure. The boy celebrated his 12th birthday this year! Eager to share their experience and passion, “Dom Maior” seeks help and resources to go even further.

After a few weeks of local fundraising, the Grand Priory of Portugal managed to buy and deliver a brand new fridge, with a better energy efficiency than the one requested. Pulling their efforts together, the Commandery of Lagos and the Commandery of Arraiolos packaged and delivered 60 children’s games that were highly appreciated and helped to contribute to a fun, balanced education.

The Templar Corps International aggregates these initiatives of good will from Templars all around the world. It doesn’t make sense that volunteers work in isolation and unknown to each other. The needs of children in “Don Maior”, the computers for Ferroviários and the altruism of the Anjos band (of brothers) is multiplied ONE THOUSAND TIMES if we share the resources, share the burden and share the love.

Serving God by serving mankind. That’s it, really.

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Farewell, Janusz Korzeniowski

Janusz Korzeniowski (July 23, 1979 – July 1, 2020)
Templar Corps member.

For years, guests entering the Wilanów gardens passed a tent in which children, teenagers and adults were sitting, drawing letters in concentration. In the tent you could meet a man wearing a brown habit or a beautifully decorated old dress. He usually talked to visitors, and then wrote their names on pieces of paper in beautiful writing. Thousands of names from around the world. He wrote dedications to lovers, wishes for various occasions, thanks, diplomas, lists of dishes for culinary workshops. This is all that someone wanted to commemorate, make solemn, relevant. He greeted the walkers with Old Polish greeting and a nod, sweeping the palace courtyard with a huge hat. He always found time for each guest, wanted to exchange at least a few words with each …

He had a vision of a unique place – Scriptorium Villa Nova, a space arranged for calligraphic classes. He realized this vision – thanks to him, an unusual place of concentration and education was created. During several years of work, he personally built two printing presses, boxes, boxes for calligraphic materials, desktops, tables, benches for work, developed drawings for calligraphic exercises, but most of all infected with passion for the art of calligraphy.

He conducted numerous calligraphic workshops with audiences of all ages, taught how to lay hands, how to draw beautiful letters, encouraged perseverance. With the social passion and patience that characterize the best educators, he taught beautiful writing, while talking about respect for the heritage and value of science in human life. He intuitively knew how to reach everyone, and his willingness to share knowledge and skills, as well as the openness with which he greeted guests in the Scriptorium of the Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów, made him a model of a museum educator. A master of calligraphy who, by his own work, came to proficiency and craftsmanship. Calligraphy was his whole life and he was able to convey this passion to a large group of students and fans.

Janusz Korzeniowski left us on July 1, 2020. We will miss him very much, his enthusiasm, enthusiasm, serenity and willingness to help solve everyday and unusual difficulties.

We convey our condolences to the Family and Relatives.

Sorrowful employees and director
Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów,
classmates, pupils and pupils

Sometimes in the palace courtyard you could hear the school bell, finishing calligraphic workshops. However, we are not finished, and Janusz Korzeniowski’s students want to continue the program created with such passion by a calligraphy master. So we encourage everyone – write by hand, let the passion Janusz shared with us continues. Scriptorium Villa Nova will resume operations in the second half of July, we will continue to use materials and aids made by our late friend.

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COVID19 Situation in Bolivia gets more complex

Bolivia exceeds 19,000 positive cases for Covid-19 and total deaths amount to 630

In the last 24 hours, more than 600 infections were registered, more than half of them in the department of Santa Cruz, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country.

The number of people infected in Bolivia by the new coronavirus has exceeded the 19,000 threshold on Monday, after registering more than 600 infections in a single day, more than half of them in the department of Santa Cruz, epicenter of the pandemic in the South American country.

The Bolivian Ministry of Health has confirmed 614 additional infections in 24 hours, which increases the provisional balance of positives to 19,073. In Santa Cruz alone, 317 more infected have been registered, up to a total of 11,741, evidencing an upward curve that worries the authorities.

The Defense Minister, Fernando López, announced after the meeting of the Departmental Emergency Operations Committee (COED) that a house-to-house search will begin this Tuesday in search of possible cases. It will be the “largest registry in Bolivia”, for which it has asked for the collaboration of everyone, from security forces to private companies to their own families, according to the Bolivian newspaper ‘La Razón’.

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Stay strong brothers in Bolivia!

The image has the recommendations of the National Directory of Bolívia of the Templar Corps for those who have to be confined.

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OSMTHU Elections 2020 – 2025

The OSMTHU has announced today that the Electoral Procedure for the election of the Master and Magisterial Council for the period 2020 – 2025 is now opened. Current Master, HE António Paris resumed his term of office in 2018 in Arraiolos, Portugal. That term ends in 2020.

In the last two years the Order has worked for the unity of the Templar world, being in touch with a substantial number of autonomous branches and individual Grand Priories in an attempt to congregate efforts in true international Templar cooperation. Of the several Projects that should flourish in the next few years, the International Conferente on the Order of the Temple and Templarism is one of the most innovative and ground-braking. The new elected Master of the OSMTHU will be invested in office during the II Conference in October 2020.

For more details, please visit the OSMTHU official site.

*(foto: left to right – HE Nicolas Haimovici Regent OSMTJ; HE Antonio Paris Master OSMTHU; HE Fernando Freire Mayor of Vila Nova da Barquinha; HE Francisco Caballero Gran Prior de Toledo. Taken during the I International Conference on the Order of the Temple and Templarism, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal, October 13, 2019)

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Disaster Relief in Bolivia – Templar Help

On 14 February 2020, the Bolivia Government Information Agency declared a disaster zone for Luribay Municipality, La Paz Department, due to heavy rain and river flooding that has affected 500 families, 30 households, and 1,050 hectares of agricultural land. In addition, media reported this rainy season overall has affected eight of nine regions of the country were 6,423 families suffered injuries. To date, 17 deaths have been registered.

The Priorato General del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, headed by Grand Prior General Fr+ Vincenzo Tuccillo organized a Templar presence in the relief efforts, in cooperation with the main ONG’s in the country, including the International Red Cross.

Food, medicines, water and other essential goods were gathered by the Bolivian brothers and sisters, effectively kicking off the first real world action of the Relief organization of the OSMTHU – to be announced later in the year – the Templar Corps International, the service Corps of the Order.

The Grand Priory of Bolivia has been working on a steady development of Templar ideals in South America, in a leading role, alongside the Grand Priory of Colombia, a true beacon of Templar light in the region. An International Meeting with a focus on ecumenical cooperation and opened to all Templar lines and families in the Americas, is being prepared. More details on the work of the Grand Priory of Bolivia can be found by visiting the website.

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VN Barquinha celebrates protocol with Templar order that will make CITA the “world’s most important repository on the Order of the Temple”

The Vila Nova da Barquinha Municipality has entered into a protocol with two branches of the Templar Order – the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolimitani Universalis (OSMTHU) and the Ordre Sovereign et Militaiire du Temple de Jerusalem (OSMTJ) – to declare the municipality and the Interpretation Center Almourol Templar (CITA) as an International Place of Templar Cultural Interest.

The proposal for the protocol came to the Municipal Chamber meeting on October 9 and deserved a positive opinion from the executive.

Councilor Marina Honório explains that the initiative results from the association of OSMTHU and OSMTJ who also wants Vila Nova da Barquinha to host “an annual event of the International Congress type and the recommendation that bibliographic collections and objects could be sent to the Center and enrich the CITA as an unavoidable international reference on the Order of the Temple and its cultural influences across the ages.”

As a starting point for this collaboration, Fernando Freire explained that both branches of the Order have already approved several initiatives aimed at encouraging collectors, archives and library owners to make donations and to make CITA by 2021 the “most important, complete and extensive”. repository and bibliographic collection on the Order of the Temple ”.

On the OSMTHU side, one of the initiatives is the negotiation of the passage of the Temple Archive, consisting of multiple original documentation concerning the International Chancellery and the International Federative Alliance Secretariat since 1988, as well as various objects and archives, on loan to the locality of Soria, Spain since 2007, for CITA in Vila Nova da Barquinha.

Another initiative to be taken by OSMTHU is to designate CITA as the “custodial institution to be handed over the update of the Order’s Archives, composed of the official documentation produced by the International Chancellery annually” as well as the “addition of historical documentary collections. bibliographic and objects of archaeological, academic or museological interest that can be donated ”.

The OSMTHU will also offer a forged replica, according to traditional rules, of the sword of the crusader Godofredo Bulhões, symbol of the historical context that gave rise to the Order of the Temple.

The OSMTJ will contribute with the deposit of a thematic bibliographic collection as well as an extensive documentary archive about the activity of the Order in the last half of the twentieth century.

In addition to the initiatives in terms of Archive and Library, the protocol also provides for cultural exchanges, through the loan and exhibition of specific pieces.

Finally, this collaboration also aims to hold an International Conference. An “annual international event taking place in 2020, 2021 and 2022”, as explained by the mayor of VN Barquinha, Fernando Freire.

The venue for the annual event will be CITA, whose organization, programming and promotion will be the responsibility of the two orders involved in the protocol.

It is recalled that the Templar Interpretation Center of Almourol was opened to the public in November 2018 and is a pioneer center for the Order of the Temple in Portugal, endowed with a relevant set of features including an exhibition space, auditorium and thematic library.

By Ana Rita Cristóvão, antenalivre.pt

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World experts in “Templarism” in Almourol

“Order of the Temple – Spiritual Chivalry and Templarism” is the theme of the event that will bring together, between October 11 and 13, 2019, in the Almourol Templar Interpretation Center, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Portugal, the world’s leading experts on this subject, with speakers from France, Italy, [Germany, Austria] the United States and Portugal.

Antonio Paris (OSMTHU Master, Italy), Barbara Frale (of the Vatican Archives), Nicolas Haimovici (OSMTJ Regent, France), John von Blauch (United States), Luís de Matos, Manuel J. Gandra, Ernesto Jana and Nuno Villamariz Oliveira (Portugal) are some of the confirmed speakers.

During the event a new temporary exhibition will be inaugurated in the Templar Interpretation Center of Almourol – “Santoral and Templar liturgy”. The catalog of the exhibition will be made available on opening day. The event will also be remarked by the signing of Protocols of Cooperation and Partnership with CITA and the reception of the replica of the sword of Godofredo de Bouillon.

The program includes visits to Almourol Castle (Vila Nova da Barquinha) and the Convent of Christ (Tomar), as well as musical moments.

Registrations cost 15 € (with catalog offer), are mandatory and limited. The contact for more information and registration is +351 249720358.