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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
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CHARLES G. ADDISON, ESQ.
The history of the Knights Templars, Temple Church, and the Temple
page 75
62
TUB ΚΝΙΘΗΤ8 TEMPLARS.
ODO OX the foes of Islam, and his admiring brethren gave him the liihîîiiï.' name of Salah-cd-deen, " Integrity of Religion," vulgarly called
Saladin.
At the head of forty thousand horse and foot, he crossed the
desert and ravaged the borders of Palestine ; the wild Bedouins
and the enthusiastic Arabians of the far south were gathered
together under his standard, and hastened with holy zeal to
obtain the crown of martyrdom in defence of the faith. The
long remembered and greatly dreaded Arab shout of onset,
Allah acbar, GOD is victorious, again resounded through the
plains and the mountains of Palestine, and the grand religious
struggle for the possession of the holy city of Jerusalem, equally
reverenced by Mussulmen and by Christians, was once more
vigorously commenced. Saladin besieged the fortified city of
Gaza, which belonged to the Knights Templars, and was con
sidered to be the key of Palestine towards Egypt. The luxuriant
gardens, the palm and olive groves of this city of the wilderness,
were destroyed by the wild cavalry of the desert, and the innu
merable tents of the Arab host were thickly clustered on the
neighbouring sand-hills. The warlike monks of the Temple
fasted and prayed, and invoked the aid of the God of battles ; the
gates of the city were thrown open, and in an unexpected sally
upon the enemy's camp they performed such prodigies of valour,
that Saladin, despairing of being able to take the place, aban
doned the siege, and retired into Egypt.*
The year following, Pope Alexander's famous bull, omne datum
optimum, confirming the previous privileges of the Templars, and
conferring upon them additional powers and immunities, was
published in England. It commences in the following terms :
" Alexander, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his
beloved sons, Odo, Master of the religious chivalry of the Temple,
* Wit!. Tyr. lib. xx. xxi. xxii.
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