"Well, if you have travelled, then you will know about the Moors in Spain," Father Harman says. "So that is something you can relate to. Well, some time after the year 1000, Christendom mounted a number of military campaigns to the Holy Land under the pretext of making the pilgrim roads safe, and in the course of that, several military orders were founded. That was the first step toward our order, you might say."