Friday the 13th’s bad reputation, according to historians, began on October the 13th 1307. The Knights Templar members were declared heretics and rounded up en masse to be burned at the stake.
The New Order of the Knights Templar has observed this day for a couple of decades now by wearing black and fasting. In this way they honor the Templars of the past.
The original mission of the Templar brothers and sisters of the past was to protect Christian pilgrims from Muslim attack as they traveled to worship at sacred sites. Millions of Muslims travel to Mecca each year, but about a thousand years ago, tens of thousands of Christian devotees would make pilgrimages to visit Jerusalem and other sites holy to their religion. The muslims in charge didn’t want them coming, so they gave their soldiers standing orders to murder Christian visitors on site and usually, after robbing them and sometimes worse. The Templars were founded approximately a thousand years ago to stop these attacks and protect the Christian devotee pilgrims. They ended up in many a pitched battle with Muslim armies.
If a Templar were caught he would be automatically beheaded rather than offered the option to convert to Islam. Templars were not given the “traditional” option to convert to Islam because the Muslims knew they would never renounce their faith, even to avoid beheading. Every year
Templar members observe Templar Remembrance Day, observing it with fasting and wearing black.
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