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	Vatican Reveals Templar Secrets The Times October 13, 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2648422.ece Vatican City The Knights Templar, the medieval Christian military order accused of heresy and sexual misconduct, will soon be partly rehabilitated when the Vatican publishes trial documents it has closely guarded for 700 years. It is publishing only 799 copies of the minutes of trials against the Templars, Processus Contra Templarios - Papal Inquiry into the Trial of the Templars, which will sell for €5,900 (£4,115). The giant work will come in a soft leather case, with detailed reproductions of original Latin parchments and the wax seals used by the 14th-century inquisitors. "Nothing before this offered scholars original documents of the trials of the Templars," said Professor Barbara Frale, a medievalist at the Vatican's Secret Archives. The Templars were founded in 1119 by knights sworn to protect Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. Legends of their hidden treasures and secret rituals and power have featured in films and bestsellers such as The Da Vinci Code. (Reuters)
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