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This article is composed of two parts. In the first it is made a quick revision of Catholic Church's posture with regard to violence, briefly analysing various stages of this posture since the patristc beginnings till Twelfth Century, a moment in which the violence's topic was properly justified and integrated in the Church's dogmatic structure. In the second part, chronologically focused in this samen moment, the Twelfth Century, it is approached the matter of the late ecclesiastic pacifism's vestiges, analysed in close relationship with the movement of critic towards the Military Orders.