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Sophie
looked
over
.
«
And
you
said
they
discovered
something
?
»
«
They
certainly
did
,
»
Langdon
said
,
explaining
how
it
had
taken
nine
years
,
but
the
Knights
had
finally
found
what
they
had
been
searching
for
.
They
took
the
treasure
from
the
temple
and
traveled
to
Europe
,
where
their
influence
seemed
to
solidify
overnight
.
Nobody
was
certain
whether
the
Knights
had
blackmailed
the
Vatican
or
whether
the
Church
simply
tried
to
buy
the
Knights
’
silence
,
but
Pope
Innocent
II
immediately
issued
an
unprecedented
papal
bull
that
afforded
the
Knights
Templar
limitless
power
and
declared
them
»
a
law
unto
themselves
»
–
an
autonomous
army
independent
of
all
interference
from
kings
and
prelates
,
both
religious
and
political
.
With
their
new
carte
blanche
from
the
Vatican
,
the
Knights
Templar
expanded
at
a
staggering
rate
,
both
in
numbers
and
political
force
,
amassing
vast
estates
in
over
a
dozen
countries
.
They
began
extending
credit
to
bankrupt
royals
and
charging
interest
in
return
,
thereby
establishing
modern
banking
and
broadening
their
wealth
and
influence
still
further
.
By
the
1300s
,
the
Vatican
sanction
had
helped
the
Knights
amass
so
much
power
that
Pope
Clement
V
decided
that
something
had
to
be
done
.
Working
in
concert
with
France
’
s
King
Philippe
IV
,
the
Pope
devised
an
ingeniously
planned
sting
operation
to
quash
the
Templars
and
seize
their
treasure
,
thus
taking
control
of
the
secrets
held
over
the
Vatican
.
In
a
military
maneuver
worthy
of
the
CIA
,
Pope
Clement
issued
secret
sealed
orders
to
be
opened
simultaneously
by
his
soldiers
all
across
Europe
on
Friday
,
October
13
of
1307
.
At
dawn
on
the
thirteenth
,
the
documents
were
unsealed
and
their
appalling
contents
revealed
.
Clement
’
s
letter
claimed
that
God
had
visited
him
in
a
vision
and
warned
him
that
the
Knights
Templar
were
heretics
guilty
of
devil
worship
,
homosexuality
,
defiling
the
cross
,
sodomy
,
and
other
blasphemous
behavior
.
Pope
Clement
had
been
asked
by
God
to
cleanse
the
earth
by
rounding
up
all
the
Knights
and
torturing
them
until
they
confessed
their
crimes
against
God
.
Clement
’
s
Machiavellian
operation
came
off
with
clockwork
precision
.
On
that
day
,
countless
Knights
were
captured
,
tortured
mercilessly
,
and
finally
burned
at
the
stake
as
heretics
.
Echoes
of
the
tragedy
still
resonated
in
modern
culture
;
to
this
day
,
Friday
the
thirteenth
was
considered
unlucky
.
Sophie
looked
confused
.
«
The
Knights
Templar
were
obliterated
?
I
thought
fraternities
of
Templars
still
exist
today
?
»
«
They
do
,
under
a
variety
of
names
.
Despite
Clement
’
s
false
charges
and
best
efforts
to
eradicate
them
,
the
Knights
had
powerful
allies
,
and
some
managed
to
escape
the
Vatican
purges
.
The
Templars
’
potent
treasure
trove
of
documents
,
which
had
apparently
been
their
source
of
power
,
was
Clement
’
s
true
objective
,
but
it
slipped
through
his
fingers
.
The
documents
had
long
since
been
entrusted
to
the
Templars
’
shadowy
architects
,
the
Priory
of
Sion
,
whose
veil
of
secrecy
had
kept
them
safely
out
of
range
of
the
Vatican
’
s
onslaught
.
As
the
Vatican
closed
in
,
the
Priory
smuggled
their
documents
from
a
Paris
preceptory
by
night
onto
Templar
ships
in
La
Rochelle
.
»
