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Daniel Cappadora
Monsignor Farrell
The Catholic Church has many influences on King Arthur and the rest of his Knights of the Round Table. The knights depended on the church for its teachings and the great power the church held in society. The Knights of the Round Table pledged great loyalty to th ....
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.... important tie that the Holy Grail has with the church is its significance in the modern day ceremony of the Eucharist at church.
Another link between the Catholic Church and the Legends of Arthur is that Merlin was a wizard, or Druid. There were no practicing wizards in England in 500 AD, the Roman Catholic Church had killed them all off, or drove them into hiding. They did not take kindly to wizardry. The Christians who were killing the wizards were considered to be bad Christians. Christian Law teaches that you are not supposed to kill your enemies.
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