Happy Friday the 13th !!

Another theory about the origin of the superstition traces the event to the arrest of the legendary Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E. Their original mission was to guide and protect Christian pilgrims along the path from Europe to Jerusalem during the Crusades. Through this mission, the Templars developed a banking system to protect the finances of the traveling pilgrims, then expanded this system throughout their holdings in Europe. Over time, France's Philip IV of France amassed a debt to the Knights Templar for years of service. He had nearly depleted his money due to his ongoing battles with England. King Phillip became envious of the Knights Templar and their rise to power, so he set his sights on their famed fortunes. Philip devised a plan to arrest all the Knights Templar and charge them with crimes so devastating that no person or group would come to their defense. The charges against them were religious in nature and backed by the papacy of the Vatican and Pope Clement V. His plan had to be swift and carefully put together so as to not alert the Templars in advance.

Knights Templar and Philip IV
King Phillip's orders were sent a month in advance to the King's Men and other Bailiffs. They were not to be opened till dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307. The charges against the Templars were of the highest accusations of heresy: that the Knights Templar asked members to spit on the cross and step on it, to deny Christ, to perform homosexual acts, and so on. The king's orders were to engage and arrest every Templar in France. All Templar outposts, homes, wineries, mills, and castles were to be taken in the name of the King of France and Pope Clement V. This nationwide arrest was widely successful, and medieval torture tactics were used to obtain confessions from the Knights. This single act against the Templar Order is now viewed as one of the most unlucky days in History - Friday the 13th. King Phillip attempted to further bury the Templars in a public manner: a large event in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral would have Templar Grand Master Jacques De Molay publicly admit guilt of heresy. Instead, the defeated grandmaster took to his forum and apolgized to the people and Templar Knights for his weakness and for signing forced confessions. He then rescinded his original confession and testified to the public that he, his men, and all Templar Knights were innocent, despite their forced confessions. An embarrassed King Phillip was enraged by the old man's actions and had him burned at the stake along with his second-in-command. De Molay's dying last words were to curse King Phillip and Pope Clement V, claiming that by the year's end they both would meet their demise. To add to the superstition of the Friday the 13th and to the power of the Templars both men did die that year. <4>

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code. However, some experts think that it is a relatively recent correlation and is a modern-day invention.<3><7><10> For example, records of the superstition are rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson's popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,<11> in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.<4>

In Spanish-speaking countries, instead of Friday, Tuesday the 13th is considered a day of bad luck, commonly referred to as 'Martes y trece' (Literally translates to: Tuesday and thirteen).<12> The Fall of Constantinople, when the city fell to the Ottomans, marks the end of the Byzantine Empire. It happened on Tuesday, May 29, 1453. That is why the Greeks also consider Tuesday to be an unlucky day.<12>

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even if that Friday wasn't the 13th. It's just another day AFAIC.

thanks for playing.

Have a good one.

Of course, that could be because she was born on December 13, and so had several Friday the 13th birthdays in her 94 years. :) In any case, I prefer her version and have stuck to it. I like carrying on some of her traditions.

;)

Accounting of the tale yet. I'd only read about the results, not the story behind the scenes, the profit angle. That's where the truth lies hidden under the pious rhetoric of any generation, including McCarthyism.

The method of royal robbery described hasn't lost its touch, just the means have changed with communication technology.

The GOP/ Tea Party/ Koch brothers demonize progressives, teachers and labor through modern day media to cover up massive thefts with huge charges of heinous crimes being committed against the conventional or conservative folks.

Not necessarily in this order, but they read: Anti-Christian, socialist, homosexuals in public schools to indoctrinate children, etc. The charges are so outrageous they get the blood pressure up very high but there is never any proof all these alleged criminals are any different in their behavior than anyone else.

These bankrupt goons haven't even changed the list of fake charges they use to inflame the masses and get them to cheer on the destruction of those they are stealing from.

And that's what they are, just like the French monarch, bankrupt and looking to stay on top with even more theft. After all, that's how they got there, huh? No manual laborers in their group. But con the working folk into believing any of the list above, watch out.

That's why I question myself and everyone who goes after others with judgments to try to figure the motivation behind the outrage.

It's a perpetual game of 'who's kidding who?'

follow the money :)

of birthdays on Friday the 13th, including my 13th, and 30th.
So I suppose it is not unlucky for me, as I am still alive and moderately healthy.
dc

:hi:

his last birthday was on Friday the 13, and then he was found dead on 7/7/2007.
So I don't know if it was the 7s or the 13 that was unlucky for him. He was found on the 7th, but clearly he died before that.
dc

made my mother VERY superstitious about the day.

Oddly enough, he was born Xxxxx Yyyyy Zzzzz and I was named Yyyyy Xxxxx Zzzzz and looked exactly like him as a child. I have always seem to have good Friday the 13ths. Karma?

my condolences to you and your Mother.

funny how life works.

Signed,

Jason Voorhees

sheesh

Servants with much heart are tree craft.

Why I think it says Lord of living and dead.

shrug, the stuff is not hard to understand.



It is in much of the texts, stones from the river bed, stone hearts, if a person was silent these very stones would cry out.

Tree of life, branches of the trunk, Birds nesting in the trees.

The triangle and the V, two parts of star of David, Male female, soldier servant.

Really not hard to understand.

:hi: