Convent of Christ

His statue still dominates the main square in Tomar, and this battle-scarred figure oversees the construction of a Templar fortress in Tomar.

And inside this fortress is the Convent of Christ Church, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Gualdim Pais is famous, in part, because of this church he builds at Tomar called The Round Church.

It has 16 sides, built that way so the Templars could attend mass on horseback.

In the 1960s, you had all sorts of treasure hunters in Europe, but you didn't have the same kinds of laws that we have today about antiquities and taking antiquities out of one place to another place.

And so they're essentially grave robbers looking for Roman artifacts.

So you have these treasure hunters who are at the Convent of Christ Church in Tomar.

They dig into a grave, and they pull out two caskets.

His statue still dominates the main square in Tomar, and this battle-scarred figure oversees the construction of a Templar fortress in Tomar.

And inside this fortress is the Convent of Christ Church, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Gualdim Pais is famous, in part, because of this church he builds at Tomar called The Round Church.

It has 16 sides, built that way so the Templars could attend mass on horseback.

In the 1960s, you had all sorts of treasure hunters in Europe, but you didn't have the same kinds of laws that we have today about antiquities and taking antiquities out of one place to another place.

And so they're essentially grave robbers looking for Roman artifacts.

So you have these treasure hunters who are at the Convent of Christ Church in Tomar.

They dig into a grave, and they pull out two caskets.

The ones that were at Tomar in Portugal, they met at a place called the...

the convent of Christ, which still exists and still has an order descended from the Templars, which is known as the Knights of Christ.

They still exist and are associated with the, what remains of the Portuguese royal family.

So there are lots of these different people who are genuinely connected with the last of the Templars.

It looks very similar to me.

Ah, yes, that is because he was following in the tradition of a man called Henry the Navigator.

Henry the Navigator was a very wealthy man in Portugal, and he was a member of this Convent of Christ, which was the last members of the Templars, and they were still using Templar money to fund Henry the Navigator's first voyages round Africa and round the Cape of Good Hope and up back towards the Middle East and the Red Sea.

The Portuguese Age of Discovery had been started by Henry the Navigator, who had been a member of this last Templar group.

Now, that goat comes from somewhere, and it is Baphomet.

And I, and I recently went to Tomar in Portugal, which is, if you like, the original headquarters of the Knights Templar, and there was one book that I found in that, in, in, in the Convent of Christ when I was looking around.

There was one book in English, and I opened it up with the tour guide that took us around, and the page opened on Baphomet.

Mm.

And it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It's the 12th century Convent of Christ.

Yeah.

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