triskaidekaphobia

[janetlin]

So my Child Development teacher walks into class this morning, and declares before doing anything else, that, "today is going to be a bad day." And I felt like such a geek for wanting to reply with, "Well, not unless the Pope and the King of France are jealous of your wealth and power and decide to falsely accuse you of heresy." *snerk*

I really don't think anyone else in the class would have understood.

And huh, almost exactly seven hundred years. It doesn't sound like that long a time, when you're just looking at the number, but when you think of what was happening: "Oh, the Inquisition was forever ago..."

Comments

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Are you referring to Jacques de Molay and his merry crew, or am I off by a couple of centuries?

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

I am, indeed, referring to the Poor Knights. Philip the Fair and Clement V sent out Order 66 sealed instructions to round them up in the early morning hours of Friday, 13 October 1307. Brilliantly executed bit of work, that. It was a huge organization and you almost have to admire their cojones for even _attempting_ it, much less pulling it off. Almost.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

The Templars didn't exactly impress me with their moral virtue either.

[janetlin.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they had their bad apples, as can only be expected of any group with so many members, but I don't believe they were the monsters they were (and continue to be) painted to be.