Order of the Knights Templar order to be maximally great he

to be maximally great he has to exist

conceivably not have existed and therefore be contingent

since in its beginnings it was only religious

my holy mountain

1096 he departed at the head of his army

Order of the Knights Templar order to be maximally great heAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8