medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Marjorie Greene wrote:
>
> I offer the following:
The following appears to lack references.
John Briggs
> There are many accounts of Jacques DeMolay's dying
> words, but one of the foremost Templar scholars
> records them as follows:
>
> "It is just that, in so terrible a day, and in
> the last moments of my life, I should discover all the
> iniquity of falsehood, and make the truth triumph. I
> declare, then, in the face of heaven and earth, and
> acknowledge, though to my eternal shame, that I have
> committed the greatest crimes but it has been the
> acknowledging of those which have been so foully
> charged on the order. I attest - and truth obliges me
> to attest - that it is innocent! I made the contrary
> declaration only to suspend the excessive pains of
> torture, and to mollify those who made me endure them.
> I know the punishments which have been inflicted on
> all the knights who had the courage to revoke a
> similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which
> is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one
> lie by another. The life offered me on such infamous
> terms I abandon without regret." [I]n his final
> moments and before he died he cursed both Philip and
> Pope Clement, summoning both of them to appear before
> God, the supreme judge, before the year was out. His
> last words were, "Let evil swiftly befall those who
> have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us." Guy
> of Auvergne is reported to have added, "I shall follow
> the way of my master as a martyr you have killed him.
> You have done and know not. God willing, on this day,
> I shall die in the Order like him."
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