And so it was that after agonizing months of torture at the hands of the Robber King and after watching one Brother after another be led to the flames, Jacques de Molay came to understand that he could do nothing less than recant his own confession that sent him to prison for the rest of his earthly life. Jacques de Molay rose up and proclaimed the innocence of the Templars. At this, the Robber King abandoned his mercy and ordered that Jacques de Molay be burned alive before all who would witness the spectacle.
Yet no flame could be hot enough to silence Jacques de Molay, and he proclaimed the innocence of his Order and himself. From the pyre he shook his fist and then, in a loud voice, spoke his last words, a curse. “I summon Philip, called King of France, and the weak Pope Clementus to appear with me before God in final judgment. Within one year, we shall all three be departed this world.”
His head fell forward and his body slumped, and Jacques de Molay surrendered himself unto his God.
In that same year of 1314, the King of France and Clementus, the fifth of that name, fell in the sweep of Death’s blade. The curse Jacques de Molay had proclaimed came to pass.
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