Legend of Blitzkid

[Blitzkid]

The Monastery of Latrun was just off the the main road to Jerusalem, at the base of the Hill. In ancient times it was a huge Castle/Fort that completely controlled the pass through the Mountains.

It held a school, in the twentieth Century so could not have been the severe Trappist movement, neither did I see any signs of Trappist monks as Wikipedia reported?--I stayed there for three days. In fact I never heard of a Trappist monastery in Palestine and only one in France.

[rebbonk]

Thanks, Blitzkid. Please keep these memories coming.

[Blitzkid]

rebbonk, A lorry load of soldiers approached our camp gate with badges and Red berets, they asked if we could give them food and tea they had been out training, but our guard at the gate felt something was wrong, so he took a closer look, walked inside the guard house to press the button to lift the pole, and called the Guard out and pressed the button to warn the camp. He had spotted their Wings Badge was on the wrong shoulder, there was a gun fight turned their lorry round and sped off taking their dead and wounded with them, we had a sandbagged guard house so we had no casualties.

Another time we had a perimeter of three rolls of Dannert barbed wire [razor wire] fence all around the camp, and about every three hundred yards a Sandbagged guard place with small searchlight and Bren gun. In middle of the night I heard a noise in the wire. Twice I challenged and no reply so I fired a whole Magazine, and my companion shone the searchlight. I had ripped a Pariah (wild dog) to pieces. I woke the camp up and there were some groans but everyone knew I had done right, we took no chances.

[Blitzkid]

St Benedictine wrote the Rules of Monastery..360 A'D- Over a dozen break-away brotherhood 'orders' came from those rules Benedictines Cistercians- etc, the templars made their famous name from the first three Crusades, at the second Crusade in Paris was Pope Eugene III a former cistercian monk and his friend King Louis who instigated the second Crusade.

[rebbonk]

I had ripped a Pariah (wild dog) to pieces.

When I was a kid, the guy who lived at the back of us told me a very similar story. He had been in 'Dad's army' and was guarding something at Baginton airport. He made the challenge, no response, so he opened fire. I believe it was a (now very dead) sheep. I suspect, that being wartime, it was eaten.

[Blitzkid]

The white Friars of Coventry were definitely Knight Templars, fleeing from persecution (their Treasurer was burnt alive at the stake,)-- now the Bible was the most noted of all books, but despite all that Christianity we can’t get away from the Pagans, every day of the week is from Pagan Gods. Without searching records I have The pagan god Thor was the thunder God, and became Thursday, and all other days are named after these pagan gods. They also believed in Witches, so you had witches called a Coven under a tree and Bingo you get the Viking word --Coven-tree.

On my travels around the Middle east came the tale of ‘Pagan Gods Path’ down Amalfi Mountain’. In 1954 I walked down that tree covered Mountain with a beautiful female Italian guide and the Gods looked friendly on me.

[dutchman]

The word "coven" didn't become associated with witches until 1921 when archaeologist Margaret Murray used the term in her book "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe". Before that it meant any gathering or meeting and "try" (or "tre") meant place so Coven-try = Meeting Place.

Murray's book has since been widely discredited by historians.

[Blitzkid]

So was Pennants book and a lot of Victorian books were discredited by later Historians, so I went to the Vatican to find out the truth.

[Blitzkid]

I may have told you but there were only two places inside the Coventry city boundary that held two Dockyards, and my family had both, from the early Victorian era, all boats had to be licensed in 1856 at B’Ham.

At that time my family bought Planks of wood from Denmark and used Steam boxes to bend the wood.

[Blitzkid]

But all monks were from St Benedictine when they turned to Christians. They built Westminster Cathedral on the old ruins of a Saxon church in the 7th century, Canterbury in 597 Lincoln Cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1141, rebuilt it was toppled by earthquake in 1185 rebuilt by Carthusian monks, the monks and friars built so much, but they were all breakaway benedictine Monks. Ely Twin Cathedral in 869 and so forth.