Knights Templar

Just a word on the celebration of the Knights Templar,

District Grand Priory of the South of Scotland

at Nunraw Abbey

for their Annual Divine Service,

31 May 2008.

The Knights mustered on the lawns and formed a procession through the front archway and up to the Chapel.

The historic painted ceiling (1606) provided a telling background for the Celebration and featured the Heraldic Shields of the Holy Roman Empire.

Heraldry was also to the fore in the Banners displayed later in front of the Vision of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the Patron Saint of the Templars. In the centre of banners is the Black and White Cistercian Banner. The Service Booklet was decorated with the medallion of the Agnus Dei carrying the Cistercian Emblem.

I have inserted captions in the pictures to save a long story.

The encounter with these representatives of the long history of the Knights Templar is like opening the first page of a vast history, for and aft, of the pre-suppression and the ever growing traditions of the Knights.

An enthralling story that continues to unfold.