" as well as this everywhere men flocked to join the Order. the reasons for it's attraction then are clear. Sometimes they were private and particular, as in the instance of the knight whose wife and three children had all died in quick succession, or the knight whose wife was stricken with leprosy after bearing him a daughter, and had to live apart from him forever. Sometimes it was men who were bored with self-indulgence and the slavery to liberty, the constant need to think of the morrow; to those, as to many others then and now, personal free will was not the greatest freedom but the heaviest responsibility. But in general, the unique attraction of the Templars was their combination of war and worship, the two passions of the age."

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