Happy Knights Templar Slaughter Day everyone!

[plurality]

http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Masonry/Essays/friday13.html

The fear of number 13 and Friday the 13th

The following, historical events, 700 years back in time, are related to peoples fear for the number 13 and Friday the 13th. It arrived to America and was spread all over the world by French emigrants, who heard of the tragedy in France and especially in Paris, below shortly described:

The tragedy concerns the banishment, arresting and outlawing of all Knights Templar, Friday the 13th of October, the year 1307 against their declaration of innocence.

The last known Grand Master of the spiritual Order of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burned to death on a slow fire on the stake outside the Notre Dame Church in Paris together with his successor, on Friday the 13th of March , the year 1314 after long time in prison and of unsuccessful trials to get an admittance of guilt, where even hard torture was involved.

When the flames from the stake, where he was tied up, reached him and it started burning in his dress, he proclaimed in front of the assembled Parisians:

"Here you see innocent people die!"

Then he turned toward his three present executioners with the following cry of
prophecy, (compare the First Epistle of the Corinthian, 14:1):

"I am calling you, King Philip IV of France!"

"I am calling you, Pope Clemence V"

"I am calling you, Prime Minister Guillaume de Nogaret, to appear within
one year from today at the Court of God in order to receive your legitimated
penalty! - curse, curse, be all of you cursed until your 13th generation"

[Bozola]

1. Not quite.

"Friday the 13th of October, the year 1307"

This is date is based on the Julian calendar. We now use the Gregorian calendar, at least officially in the US, we do. There's about an 10-11 day difference between the two.

[plurality]

4. of course it's not an exact aniversary

But I thought this would be a good time to educate some to the origination of Friday the 13th as an 'evil day'.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. I'll drink to Godfroi de Bouillion, Jacques de Molay and Henry Sinclair

and maybe Baphomet. Oops, better not.

[bobbieinok]

3. Holy Blood, Holy Grail??

..

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Oh, the lot. I've read way too much on the subject.

Of course, I can't tell you what. Then I'd have to kill you. Me and my Merovingian allies.

[Paschall]

6. Not exactly

De Molay wasn't executed in front of Notre Dame, but below the Pont Neuf bridge, the oldest in Paris. There's a plaque there commemorating the event.

http://www.crusader.dial.pipex.com/jdm/index.shtml