![]() ![]() ![]() However, the future King Louis XVIII (pictured left wearing the Grand Cross) continued to confer it in exile, and on the restoration of the monarchy the Bourbon monarchs continued as protectors until 1830. In 1791, the French Revolution suppressed the Order in that country and confiscated its property. Maurice and Lazarus, of which the Head of the Royal House of Savoy is Grand Master today. Meanwhile, in 1572, Pope Gregory XIII had merged the Italian branch of the Order with the Order of St Maurice (founded 1434), creating the Order of Ss. While being a French Royal Order, the Order remained under apostolic authority. This amalgamation eventually received canonical acceptance on 5 June 1668 by a bull issued by the Cardinal Legate de Vendôme under the authority of Pope Clement IX. This protection was confirmed in 1604 by King Henri IV, and in 1608, the order was merged with the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, becoming the Royal, Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. ![]() In 1308, the Order was placed under the temporal protection of King Philippe IV of France. After this, the knights moved to Cyprus, then Sicily and finally to Boigny near Orléans in France, where King Louis VII of France (ancestor of the Princes of Miensk) had given the Order a property in 1154, which had been the Order’s headquarters outside the Holy Land. The order quickly abandoned their military activities after the fall of Acre in 1291 and the dissolution of the Knights Templar due to their relative poverty. The leper knights were protected by a number of able-bodied knights but in times of crisis the leper knights themselves would take up arms. The order remained primarily a hospitaller order but it did take part in a number of battles, including the Battle of La Forbie on 17 October 1244 (where all of the Lazar brethren who fought died) and the Battle of Al Mansurah on 8–11 February 1250. This is believed to have given rise to the use of a green cross as a symbol by pharmacies worldwide. The symbol of the Order of St Lazarus is the eight-pointed green Maltese cross. The order established “Lazar houses” across Europe to care for lepers, and was well supported by other military orders which compelled brethren in their rule to join the order on contracting leprosy. Lazari Hierosolymitani under the Augustinian Rule was confirmed by the Papal Bull Cum a nobis petitur of Pope Alexander IV in April 1255. The Ordinis Fratrum & Militum Hospitalis Leprosorum S. Definite evidence of the Order’s active participation in military campaigns is only documented in 1234 when Pope Gregory IX made a general appeal for aid to the Order to clear debts contracted in the defence of the Holy Land. It was probably by the end of the twelfth-century that the Order had become a military order, and the four classes of members – brothers, knights, clerics and donors – were acknowledged in a Bull of Pope Gregory IX of 1227. King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, who was a leper, may have been a knight of the Order or received assistance from it. ![]() The founding knights were themselves lepers, and they devoted their order to the treatment of those with the disease. At some time after 1098, the crusaders at the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem founded this order of chivalry at a leper hospital. Lazarus of Jerusalem looks back to an ancient origin. OL2129763W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.34 Pages 354 Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230522155306 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 124 Scandate 20230519200716 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780851158938 Tts_version 5.The present-day Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Urn:oclc:record:1392421895 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier leperknightsorde0000marc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s27r245f8r2 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0851158935 Lccn 2002154333 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA409412 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:17:58 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40945118 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]()
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