Last night I talked with Jimmy Church on Coast to Coast about the history of the superstition regarding Friday the 13th and its connection with the anniversary of the arrest of the Knights Templar in Paris in 1307 by King Philip IV of France. Of course, the fact that the tragedy in Paris also happened on a Friday the 13th was on everybody’s mind. I brought up that hundreds of years later, during the French Revolution, when Louis XVI was executed by guillotine, a Freemason in the crowd is reported to have snatched up his severed head, held it in the air, and shouted “Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!” . De Molay, of course, was the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, who had been burned at the stake for the crimes of blasphemy and Devil-worship that he had confessed to multiple times. Severed head of Louis XVI displayed to crowd by Freemason The implication was that the Revolution was the work of a Masonic plot (which it largely was), and the Masons were a continuation of the Templars. So a hit against the French crown was a way of getting back for what had been done to [...]
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