The discovery of the only tomb of a Templar Master
The myth and a temporal and spiritual dispute make the Order of the Templars still popular and evocative in the collective imagination today. Some researchers have found an important trace: the discovery of the tomb of the Templar General Master Arnau de Torroja, who died at the end of the 12th century in Verona.
In 2917 the President of Templars Today, Mauro Giorgio Ferretti, discovered a sarcophagus at the Verona headquarters. The singular cross that accompanies it on the sides, a fiché cross, is the one that the ancient Templars reserved for their brothers who passed away.
The suspicion has led to a series of research and to what appears to be the greatest historical discovery regarding the Templars: the tomb is in all likelihood that of the ninth Master General of the Templars Arnau de Torroja. The tomb now needs an intervention to be isolated and placed in a special icon that makes it accessible to about 50 million fans in the world of the history of the Templars.
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The Templars Today, inspired by the ancient Order of the Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Salmonici, the Poor Knights of Christ of the Temple of Solomon, called “Templars”, unlike what is the collective imagination soiled by imaginative cinematic events and false and bad taste novels, they have decided not to handle money except the € 60 per year membership fee required from members.
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A pact for history: the agreement between the City of Verona and Templars Today for the sarcophagus of Arnau de Torroja
Verona, April 2026 – The "Patto di Sussidiarietà" (Subsidiarity Pact) has been officially signed between the City of Verona and the Associazione Templari Oggi APS for the care and enhancement of the Loggiato at the San Fermo Maggiore church complex and the sarcophagus...
Conference “The sarcophagus found in Verona and the Templars”
A historical scientific conference will be held on Saturday 21 April 2019 on the recent discovery of a sarcophagus which, according to the most recent research, would have contained the body of the general master of the Temple, Arnau de Torroja. The skeleton found...
Arnau de Torroja (1118-1184). Master General of the Temple, from 1180, he died in Verona and was buried, according to recent research, next to the Church of San Fermo Maggiore.
On April 18, 2108, in this newspaper, we proposed the article entitled The sarcophagus of Verona and the Templars, pointing out that recent research would confirm that this sarcophagus, in very poor material, according to the characteristic modesty of the Templars,...
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