Bulgaria's Veliko Turnovo Hosts International Meeting of Knights Templars

Society | June 22, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
Bulgaria??™s Veliko Turnovo Hosts International Meeting of Knights Templars: Bulgaria's Veliko Turnovo Hosts International Meeting of Knights Templars The great prior of the Bulgarian Templars Rumen Ralchev (left) and the famous archeologist (also Templar) Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov (right) presented in May the Processus Conta Templarios book in Sofia. (Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

The Bulgarian city of Veliko Turnovo hosted Saturday the sixth international convention of the Knights Templars' Order of Jerusalem in Bulgaria.

The meeting was attended by guests from Austria, Belgium, Greece, and Serbia. It was opened by the great prior of the order in Bulgaria Rumen Ralchev with an exhibition of works of art by members of the order.

Twenty more persons were admitted to the order, thus bring the number of the Templars in Bulgaria to 256.

The meeting also includes a historical conference on the connections between the Second Bulgarian State (1185-1395) and the Knights Templars. The renown Bulgarian archeologist Professor Nikolay Ovcharov, who is a Templar himself, is also taking part in the forum.

According to Ralchev, the Bulgarian Templars had donated EUR 150 000 in the four years in which the order existed in Bulgaria. He made it clear that the Order's activity was completely devoted to charity.

At the end of May a unique book issued by the Vatican and dedicated to the trial against the Templars was presented in Sofia's National Archeological Museum by Ovcharov and Ralchev.

The publication, called "Processus Conta Templarios", is an expensive limited edition of the proceedings of the 1307-1312 papal trial of the mysterious medieval crusading order of warrior-monks who were accused of heresy.

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