Order of the Knights Templar mugs agnusdei the struggle with the Moors

the struggle with the Moors seemed at an end

My heart has become like wax

• Dimensions: H 16⅞" (42cm)

After the fall of Acre in 1291 the Knights of St

Order of the Knights Templar mugs agnusdei the struggle with the MoorsAfter 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