Re: Columbus Templar cross on his sails!!??

Apparently on date Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:46:24 +1200, Eric Stevens
<eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> said:

>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:40:19 GMT,
>nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Apparently on date Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:12:04 GMT, "IEJ"
>><I_ejohansson@xxxxxxxxx> said:
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>>>"the sails of Columbus' ships were emblazoned with the Templar cross."
>>
>>Can you find an image of this anywhere on the web? I can only find numerous
>>examples of replicas / paintings where the cross is more like a Cross Flory or
>>Crosslet, i.e. crosses that aren't like the Templar one at all, excepting them
>>being "crosses".
>>
>>None with a Cross Pattee or similar.
>>
>>
>Between the web and my books I have found every type of cross under
>the sun emblazoned on the sails of Columbus's fleet. But none of them
>are worth a damn as none of the illustrations are contemporary with
>Columbus. Presumably the cross depicted depends on the artist's whim.

There you go, then. If they didn't report at the time "Oh, and he sailed with a
Templar Cross emblazoned on the front sails, odd really, given the order was
illegal and allegedly extinct by then and would have been a huge, occult secret
society at the time" then it is just someone else inventing it later on.


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