juz found out that why 13th april is bad luck dae..hmz...the story below explain why..so if yeh wan to find out..then read loz..:

langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted knights templar history,explaining how the knights were in the holy land during the second crusade and told king baldwin 2 that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways. Although unpaid and sworn to poverty, the knights told the kind they required basic shelter and requested his permission to take up residence in the stables under the ruins of the temple. king baldwin granted the soldiers' request, and the knights took up their meagre residence inside the devastated shrine.

the odd choice of lodging, langdon explained, had been anything but random. the knights believed the documents the priory sought were buried deep under the ruins-beneath the holy of holies, a sacred chamber where god himeself was believed to reside.literally, the very centre of the jewish faith. for almost a decade,the nine knights lived in the ruins,excavating in total secrecy through solid rock.

the knights had taken nine years and finally found wat they had been searching for.they took the treasure from the temple and travelled to europe,where their infulence seemed to solidify overnit.

nobody was certain whether the knights had blackmailed the vatican or whether the church simply tried to buy the knights' silence, but pope innocent 2 immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the knights templar limitless power and declared them "a law unto themselves"- an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelated, both religious and political.

with their new carte blanche from the vatican,the knights templar expanded at a staggering rate,both in numbers and political force,amassing cast estates in over a dozen countries. they began extending credit to bankrupt royals and charging interest in return,thereby establishing modern banking and broadening their wealth and influence still further.

by the 1300s,the vatican sanction had helped the knights amass so much power that pope clement 4decided that something had to be done.working in concert with france's king philippe 6,the pope devised an ingeniously planned sting operation to quash the templars and seize their treasure,thus taking control of the secrets held over the vatican. in a military manoeuvre worthy of the CIA,pope clement issued secret sealed orfers to be opened simultaneously by his soldiers all across europe on friday october 13 of 1307.

at dawn of on the thirteenth,the documents were unsealed and their appalling contents revealed.clement's letter claimed god had visited him in a vision and warned him that the knights templar where heretics guilty of devil worship,homosexuality,defiling the cross,sodomy and other blasphemous behaviour.Pope clement had been asked by god to cleanse the earth by rounding up all the knights against god.clement's machiavellian operation came off with clockwork precision.on that day,countless knights wre captured,tortured mercilessly and finally burned at the stake as heretics.echoes of the tragedy still resonated in modern culture;to this day.friday the thirteenth was considered unlucky

adapted frm "the danvinci code" by dan brown


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