In TFA’s previous article along The Templar Way explored the Templar Church of San Bernardo alle Terme during my recent Roman holiday. I had found the church after being given a hotel room overlooking its roof top. The church was built in 1598 C.E. over ancient ruins of the Diocletian Baths and was dedicated to St. Bernard of Clairvaux by the Cistercian Order of Feuillant Abbey. The Feuillant movement certainly began long after the dissolution of the historic Templars, but subtle bits of physical evidence indicated that might link the Templars to the spiritual heritage of the Cistercians.

The Rule of the Templars called for the observance of the feast of St Bartholomew.  Here is more about this feast.

I came across a news story that illustrated to me a suitable reason why "what you say and do" does make a difference.

You can expect up to 2/3 of the people to form their opinion of you based upon what is reported to them by an "authority", while less than remaining 1/3 will have either no opinion of you or will have an opinion based upon personal experience. Does this correspond with what was observed in the persecution of the historic Templars? I think that it corresponds very well.

Develop your principles, communicate your principles clearly, act upon your principles and allow others to act upon theirs. Take care that your reputation is such that others will having nothing but "good report" on your behalf. The statistics seem to bear out the consequences of not doing so--confusion, misinformation, and faulty conclusions.

San Bernard of Clairveaux, or Clairvaux is one special guy! His Templar Feast Day is August 20th and well worth celebrating. St. Bernard was instrumental in the establishment of the Templars and supported thier endeavors from their earliest activities.

Amidst the debate of the new mosque at "Ground Zero", it seems that government officials have forgotten about the only church that was actually destroyed in the attack at "Ground Zero".

Read more of this breaking news story in this article.  A brief update to the article has been added--8/19/10