Friday the Thirteenth is popularly regarded as an inauspicious day because it was on Friday 13 October 1307 that the King of France, supported by the Vatican, arrested and confiscated properties of Knights Templar and proclaimed their Order outlaw.

Knights Templar were an Order of warrior monastic chartered by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, The Mellifluous Doctor of the Church, founder of the Cistercian revival of Benedictine Monasticism. The Knights Templar were, in effect, the military arm of the Cistercian genius or eugenics. Their mission was to keep open communications between Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East, the last of which then, as now, suffered under the demands of extortionists posing as clergy or lay religious hegemonists.

Under the guidance of sages, the Knights Templar bequeathed their legacy variously after 1307 and continue to do so. Among their most prominent legacies today are our United States Military Academy and United States Special Forces Command. All of the armies of the nations comprising Europe, to include Turkey and Russia, and some of the armies of nations outside Europe, for example, India, Australia, Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan, concretize legacies of the Knights Templar.

AMDG