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The Jumillano Antolí Alfonso Fernandez, Paleographer and BA in Medieval History at the University of Murcia, offered on Friday 3 October, at eight o'clock in the afternoon a lecture on "The Order of Montesa in Jumilla '

The appointment will be in the building of the Torre del Rico and the act will be presented by the Councillor for Culture and Tourism of the City of Jumilla, Juan Guardiola Verdú.

The event, organized by the 'military Jumillano Christi', V is part of the Bailiwick's Cultural Crusade Templar Jumilla wedging the cultural association of the Templars of the locality.

According to reports from this group "several years of research, local Templars hand, allows the researcher Jumillano rigorous provide the municipality and lovers of history have knowledge of one of the lesser known historical chapters in which the wealthy and powerful Montesinos of the Thomas family is a tragic end, in that fleeting priory, another family of iron belonging to rival Santiaguista Lozano. "

"Scenarios of the facts as the Plaza de Arriba, where lies the city, today Jerónimo Molina Museum in the heart of Old Town, this architectural gem is the desecrated Chapel of San Jose, restored thanks to the intervention of local public funds and regional levels, along with the building itself Torre del Rico, show clear traces of the Jumilla Montesinos, order created in 1316 by King James II of Catalonia and Aragon to once again suppressed the Templars by Pope Clement V (1314), to welcome into its ranks the Templars Freyre who wanted to continue the service of God and therefore the Order is considered by all historians, the heir to the Temple in the Iberian Peninsula.

This will allow the listener to access, the verb fluid and learned of Mr. Antolí, one of the chapters Jumillano who envision a town that in the past was an important strategic place political, religious, social and economic life ", added from the association Templars.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla