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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 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 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 history of the Knights Hospitaller in the Levant is concerned with the early years of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the Knights Hospitaller, through 1309. The Order was formed in the later part of the eleventh century and played a major role in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in particular, the Crusades.
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 British Order of Saint John, formed in 1831 and chartered in 1888, manages several facilities in Jerusalem under the Saint John Eye Hospital Group, as well as the international St John Ambulance network. Its London headquarters, at St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, hosts the Museum of the Order of St John.
Siege of Candia + Mattia Preti's work at St John's Co-Cathedral completed. 61/62 Prince and Grand Master Gregorio Carafa: 1680–1690 Renovation of Auberge d'Italie in the Baroque style, improvement of Fort Saint Angelo and Fort Saint Elmo. Ottoman attacks were still expected, but there were no longer any notable engagements. 62/63
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.