lodgings for pilgrims visiting the holy places of jerusalem. with the passage of time, the orders role spread into providing armed escort for pilgrims and eventually into fighting the muslims themselves when the order became a military order. in saladin captured jerusalem and the knights were forced...
post reported . local officials then selected two entries that provided slightly different interpretations but drew a similar conclusion: that the inscription was a memorial to a man, possibly named "serge," who died near the beach a few years before the french revolution, according to the jerusalem...