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The document contains the
absolution Pope Clement V gave to the Grand Master of the Temple, friar
Jacques de Molay and to the other heads of the Order, after they had shown
to be repented and asked to be forgiven by the Church; after the formal
abjuration, which is compelling for all those who were even only suspected
of heretical crimes, the leading members of the Templar Order are reinstated
in the Catholic Communion and readmitted to receive the sacraments. The
document, which belongs to the first phase of the trial against the Templars,
when Pope Clement V was still convinced to be able to guarantee the survival
of the military-religious order, meets the apostolic need to remove the
shame of excommunication from the warrior friars, caused by their previous
denial of Jesus Christ when tortured by the French Inquisitor.
See this document at
http://asv.vatican.va/en/doc/1308.htm |
