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Knights Templar Secret of Longevity Revealed

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« on: April 10, 2016, 09:26:44 pm »

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The study, published in the journal Digestive and Liver Disease, investigated why most of the Knights Templar lived much longer compared to the people of the Middle Ages, whose life expectancy averaged 25–40 years.

Longevity appears to be a peculiar characteristic of the Templars. The best known cases include Hugues de Payens, the co-founder and first Grand Master of the order, who died in 1136 at age 66, Geoffrey de Charney, preceptor of Normandy, who was about 63 when executed, and the Grand Master Jacques De Molay who was burnt at the stake at the ripe old age of 67, after seven years of imprisonment.

“The exceptional longevity of the Knights Templar was generally attributed to a special divine gift,” Francesco Franceschi, at the Catholic University of Rome, and colleagues wrote.

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But the explanation might be simpler, related to the strict observance of specific lifestyle habits established by the Bernard of Clairvaux Latin Rule. Some clauses were strictly related to hygiene and nutrition.
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