Sentences with phrase «christian military order»
The Knights Templar were a Christian military order founded in the early 12th century.
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When Constantine became a Christian he created a golden opportunity to unite a wholeheartedly universalist religion and its abundance of scriptural authority and missionary impetus with an empire's forces of political, military, and economic expansion in order to create a genuine world empire.
In the Christian bible, for example, there are references to a period of time after a wedding when a man should be exempt from public service and military duties in order to make sure his new bride is happy.