For God has not spurned or disdained the misery of this poor wretch
and everything beyond our sight
they curl their lips and jeer
perhaps the earliest Christian institution to combine protection and assistance of pilgrims
The urn filled with manna from the wilderness – the miraculous bread come down from heaven
Order of the Knights Templar catholic For God has not spurnedAfter the First Crusade, which ended in 1099, Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land where resumed. Although the cities were relatively secure under Christian control, the outskirts where not, bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to reach the Holy Land. In 1119, sponsored by Saint Bernard of Clairvoux, the French knight Hugues de Payens and 8