EN11 ✠ Today we remember March 18, 1314, and Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar ✠

OF 18 MARCH 1314

712 years ago in Paris, Jacques de Molay was pushed into the fire. Not as a criminal, but as a man who refused to die lying.

For seven years in prison, under torture, under threat and under the weight of a conviction made by Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V, he signed confessions that never coincide with the truth!

And when the final moment came, in front of the crowd gathered in nale de la Cité, he portrayed every confession imposed by torment. At that time, Jacques de Molay was no longer just a Grand Master, he was the voice of an entire Order that refused to be buried dishonor.

The fire that consumed your body did not turn anything off brothers! It only extinguished the illusion of those who believed that truth could be burned along with one’s flesh.

The persecution of the Knights Templar was not born of heresy. Born of the greed of a small indebted king, and the cowardice of a submissive pope.

Against them, Molay opposed something that no campfire could achieve: The absolute integrity of those who decided to die standing up, the honor that no torture chamber was able to pluck!

May this memory summon us, today, not to bend the knee before the false, not to buy peace with the betrayal of one’s own conscience! Nobbis, dominate.

✠ “Iustus autem meus ex fide vivit.” ✠

"My righteous will live by faith. "

(Hebrews 10:38)

Amen