Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar (transferred in 1344 to the Knights of the Order of Christ) came to symbolize just the ...

where monks once reached the order’s main decisions. Image The restorers dabbed lightly at the vast blue background that surrounds a lone Christ. The fresco’s inaccessibility — the convent ...

and the brothers were killed and the convent burned. The spread of the Carmelites in Europe is largely attributable to the work of Saint Simon Stock (1247-1265). The Carmelite Order was formally ...

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