The Sir Knights of Raper Commandery No. 1's medieval period degree group, Levant Preceptory, are featured in a new documentary to air on Canadian television, "Templars Last Stand." Levant's knights were interviewed and then shown performing a special public ceremony written by Sir Knight Jim Dillman commemorating the night before the arrest of the medieval order in France in 1307.



The production company traveled to Jerusalem, Rome, Syria, England and Indianapolis, and staged battle scenes in Morocco in this quite lavish and well-produced show.



The program will be aired in the United States on the National Geographic Channel later in the year.



On camera interviews included Sir Knights John Bridegroom, Jim Dillman, Gary Messer Al Martinez and Chris Hodapp, and scenes featured the 7th floor Commandery Asylum at Indiana Freemasons' Hall, as well as the Gothic Tyler's Room of the Indianapolis Scottish Rite Cathedral.


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