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The Knights of St. John International is an international Catholic fraternal service organization.Incorporated in 1886, [1] the organization's members commit themselves to service to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, their communities, and fraternal brotherhood, with individual units, or commanderies, established within a parish. [2]
The flag and coat of arms of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, or the Jerusalem flag, [2] display a white cross on a red field (blazon gules a cross argent), ultimately derived from the design worn by the Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades. The flag represents the Sovereign Military Order of Malta as a sovereign
The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (French: l'Ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem), [n 1] commonly known as the Order of St John, [3] and also known as St John International, [4] is an order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist.
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (/ ˈ h ɒ s p ɪ t əl ər /), [b] is a Catholic military order.
The history of Rhodes under the Order of Saint John lasted from 1310 until 1522. The island of Rhodes was a sovereign territorial entity of the Knights Hospitaller who settled on the island from Kingdom of Jerusalem and from Cyprus , where they did not exercise temporal power.
Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitalier is unrelated. Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights Hospialier descends from the ecumenical Order that was established by Russian Tsar Paul I. [19] Just prior to the Russian Revolution, this order moved to the United States. [20]
The Maltese cross as defined by the constitution of the Order of St. John remains the symbol of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, of the Order of Saint John and its allied orders, of the Venerable Order of Saint John, and of their various service organisations. [6] Numerous other modern orders of merit have used the eight-pointed cross. [6]
Pages in category "Knights of the Order of St John" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 228 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .