 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Church architecture - 1843 - 168 pages
...with remorse for his disobedience, and sought to be admitted to the society of his quondam brethren. He was compelled by the Master to eat for a year on...and water, and every Sunday to present himself naked in the church before the high altar, and receive the discipline at the hands of the officiating priest... | |
 | Mabel (Aunt.) - Christian life - 1854 - 338 pages
...He was taken back into the order, but waa compelled by the master to eat for a year on the ground ; to fast four days in the week on bread and water, and to present himself every Sunday before the officiating Priest, to be scourged in the presence of the... | |
 | Christopher Barker - Guilds - 1859 - 126 pages
...writer and ex-witness informs us that imprisonment and scourgings on the bare back by the Grand Master himself were of frequent occurrence ; while even in...the oft-quoted tale of our Richard Cceur de Lion, to Foulkea when re96 THE INFLUENCE EXERCISED proached by him with the vices of his court, designated by... | |
 | Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pages
...name Valaincourt, who, having deserted the order, had returned and sought readmission, was condemned to eat for a year on the ground with the dogs, to...in the week on bread and water, and every Sunday to be scourged in the chapel. Such was the rigorous discipline of the order at the commencement of its... | |
 | 1870 - 584 pages
...name Valaincourt, who, having deserted the order, had returned and sought readmission, was condemned to eat for a year on the ground with the dogs, to...in the week on bread and water, and every Sunday to be scourged in the chapel. Such was the rigorous discipline of the order at the commencement of its... | |
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... whipped on Sundays in the church, in the presence of the whole congregation. Brother Adam de Valaincourt, a knight of a noble family, quitted the order of the Temple, but afterwards returned, smitten with remorse for his disobedience, and sought to... 