" The Temple is dead, long live the Temple!"
" The Grand Master, when he saw the fire first, took off without hesitation. He took off his clothes, except his shirt, slowly and wait quietly, without any shaking, while pushing and shaking a lot. They took him to secure the pole and tied his hands with a rope but he said: "At least let me add a little hands to send my prayer to God, because the time has come. Now I am going to die, God knows what is wrong. Coming Soon bad luck to those who have condemned without justice. God will avenge our death, I die with this belief, and you sir, please, giratemi head to the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ. " His request was granted and death took him so sweetly, in this attitude, that everyone is amazed. "
Questo scrisse Goffredo di Parigi, poeta e cronista, testimone di quel pomeriggio del 18 marzo 1314.
Per la maggior parte degli storici, Jacques de Molay era originario della Borgogna (Franca Contea), figlio di Giovanni di Longwy e di una dama del casato di Raon, nato a Molay (Haute-Saòne) vicino Bourguignon, cantone di Vitrey.
All'età di ventidue anni venne accolto nella casa del Tempio di Beaune e, nell'anno 1292, eletto Maestro Generale. Alcuni sostengono che tale elezione sia avvenuta nel 1293 ma da un documento pubblicato da A. J. Forey si evince che il cavaliere frà Baudouin de Ardan, maresciallo dell'Ordine, era presente a Nicosia (Cipro) il 20 aprile 1292, quando fu stilato un atto con il quale Jacques de Molay, “per la grace Deu humble mastre de la povre chevalerie dou Temple” (per grazia di Dio umile maestro della povera cavalleria del Tempio), concesse a frà Berengario de Cardona, maestro provinciale di Catalogna e Aragona, il permesso di alienare il castello di Puigreig e la casa del Tempio di La Zaida.
Se delle origini dell'ultimo Maestro si sa ben poco, not much has been written about his brother's temple activities, perhaps because the historical research have been mainly aimed at the reconstruction of events culminating with his death.
The 23rd Master General, dying in that way, proved to be lived up to its mandate (which lasted 22 years) and the symbol which embodied. Stripping of the Templar clothes, pointed to the present and to posterity that the Order was not convicted or not set on fire.
The serenity with which he faced death was that of a martyr, a saint, a ... Templar. That serenity which aroused the astonishment of those present and who, witnessing a great spiritual force, fueled the belief in the knowledge of techniques that, when appropriate, to control the mind with the body.
The burning of the Seine, along with the Master Jacques de Molay and the Preceptor of Normandy Geoffrey de Charnay, burned the same dream of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon.
696 years have passed and that fire is still burning. But I'm not the flames of vengeance of which they speak to some historians, fueling the legend of the curse that de Molay was launched against Philip IV the Fair and Clement V his accomplice are flames that licked as well as the bodies of two brothers, still ignite the hearts and minds to seek truth about the Templars.
NH Cav. Lucky Luciano Sciandra
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