Vic's News 2016 May 11

Geezer

…On this day in 1310 in France, fifty-four members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake as heretics. Their actual crime was being wealthy while the King of France was bankrupt and had borrowed large sums of money from them. They had accrued much wealth through establishing the first banking system in medieval times. …

Vic has the rest of the story and the reasons why. #353, 5:55am, on the Overnight Thread