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Lost Colony of the Templars, The - Verrazano's Secret Mission to America

Lost Colony of the Templars, The - Verrazano's Secret Mission to America
In 1524, the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano was sent by the French king Francis I on an expedition ostensibly to find a shorter route to China. However, his true mission, Steven Sora suggests, was to contact a Templar colony that might have been established in Newport, Rhode Island, by Henry Sinclair at the end of the 14th century. In his expedition log Verrazano recorded that his only stay on this journey was at Newport Harbor, the site of a tower built to the exact measurements of a Templar baptistery, a sacred sanctuary representing baptism and eternal life.

This tower is a remnant of Sinclair’s voyage to America nearly a century before that of Columbus (who had access to Sinclair’s maps thanks to his wife, who was Sinclair’s great-granddaughter). While Verrazano’s mission succeeded in finding the tower, the colony itself eluded him. His backers then decided to resurrect the dream of Acadia--a place where they could aspire to higher knowledge without fear of Church or state--by creating a new Secret Society that included Huguenots and Catholic Sulpicians. This Company of the Holy Sacrament would lay the foundations for Montreal in an attempt to realize the ambitions of Sinclair and his Templar companions, as well as to stave off efforts by the Jesuits to transform Quebec into a fiefdom of the orthodox Church. Quebec’s motto, “Je me souviens” (I remember), is a reference to this secret history.

Reveals the existence of a Templar colony in the New World and how the explorer Verrazano, also a member of a secret society, attempted to reestablish contact with it

• Explores Columbus’s connection to Henry Sinclair’s maps of the New World

• Examines the secret alliance of Catholic Sulpicians and French Huguenots to preserve the Templar legacy

• Reveals the hidden knowledge preserved in the Templar baptisteries found throughout Europe and in Newport, Rhode Island

About the Author:
Steven Sora has been researching historical enigmas since 1982 and is the author of Secret Societies of America’s Elite and The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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Table of Contents:

Chronology
Notable Family Connections
The Orders

Introduction: From La Rochelle to Newport
1 Sun Gods and Sea Kings
2 The Sun, the Moon, and the Knights Templar
3 The Knights Templar: Death and Rebirth
4 From Scotland to the New World: The Templar Refuge in America
5 The Templar Trail in America
6 Columbus and the Knights of Christ
7 The Secret Mission of Verrazano
8 In Arcadia: The Templar Colony in Montreal

Epilogue: Under the Rose

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Details
Author Steven Sora
Type Quality Paperback
Year 2004
Pages 288
Illustrated no
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