«It is not an easy task to write about the Templars, when the sources are scattered and derive essentially from research in temples, fortresses and other works where they left us signs and clues, which must be interpreted, correlated with each other, deduced and concluded, since much of the written record of the history of these fearless and gifted Knights of the Temple, either for calamitous causes or for premeditated reasons, has not been easy to find.»
General José Armando Vizela Cardoso