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They live similar lives, conduct similar courses, and with similar subventions go to similar conferences and give similar papers on every continent (much as David Lodge describes them in Small World ). They are not as tightly knit as other fraternities, past and present (Knights Templar, Freemasons, Jesuits, Mafia, Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross, corporate executives of Coca-Cola or Chrysler, or managers of labor unions).
At the heart of the complex is the original Templar church, the fascinating 12th-century Charola, a 16-sided structure based on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (built over Christ’s tomb) in Jerusalem.
Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos, another church closer to the castle, has an octagonal shape that reflects the influence of the architecture of the Knights Templar, and the remarkable dome is covered in beautiful 17th-century azulejos.
Beneath a colony of ever-present pigeons, it depicts Gualdim Pais, Grand Master of the Portuguese branch of the crusading Order of the Knights Templar, to whom the town was granted in 1157.