Knights Templar Brentor St Michael’s church Dartmoor

Brentor St Michael's church Dartmoor
There was a settlement at the bottom of this volcanic outcrop on Dartmoor.
The inhabitants were Christians, they decided they would build a church , But the devil was was furious he waited until the church was finished and then went into action.

The following morning the villagers awoke to find that the stones of the Church were missing, downhearted but not defeated they decided that the following day they would rebuild their church.

The breaking dawn saw them rising from their homes prepared to begin the work of rebuilding there church.

As they approached the volcanic outcrop on Dartmoor. they noticed that the Devil had put there stones on the top of the outcrop
After much discussion they decided to build there Church at the top thay named the Church St. Michael the Archangel .

The devil was very angry he started to throw the stones from the top down onto the Christians
Then a bright light descended from the sky and the Archangel St. Michael appeared and confronted the Devil.

A mighty battle took place and St. Michael slung the Devil off the outcrop onto the rocks below.

Then picking up a heavy boulder he hurled it down on to the Devil, wounding the Devil, the evil one was never seen again. However the big boulder that St. Michael threw still sits below the outcrop.

This story is dated to the 12th century.




The stone that Archangel throw at the devil

The Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller were known as Christian Warriors, and were known as devote worshippers of Christ. The Church of ST Michaels at Brentor would have been on their route as they travelled from Cornwall, through Dartmoor and onwards towards England.

A clue which the Templars left us was by naming their Churches, after the Archangel Michael, who is a warring Angel.

The Church on Brentor and the nearby ruin, was where the Knights would pitch their tents for the volcanic outcrop was a commanding place which could easily be defended.

For many of the locals were not Christians but evil heathens who would do all that they could to disrupt Christianity in England, and of course to disrupt the organization of the Templars who planned to free Jerusalem on their great crusades.

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