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The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. Commaner Star

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The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. Commaner Star
Number of awards: R
manufactured: _________

Product Code:

IN-002

Grade:

Commaner Star

Constitutor: Amadeus VIII., Herzog  Savoyen
Foundation date: 1434
Year award: 22.4.1972
Fabricator:
Origin / Provenance: J. Boddington
Material: Silber vergoldet + Emaille
Weight in (g). 74,2
Size in (mm). 92 x 92

Condition: II

The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani) is an order of chivalry originally founded at a leper hospital after 1098 by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was established to treat leprosy.

The original symbol of the Order was a green cross. This was in later centuries changed to a green eight-pointed Maltese Cross. The word lazarette, in some languages being synonymous with leprosarum, is believed to also be derived from the hospitaller Order of St Lazarus, these edifices being adopted into quarantine stations in the fifteenth century when leprosy was no longer the scourge it had been in earlier centuries.The use of the green cross as a universal symbol of pharmacies worldwide also is believed to have originated with the Order of St. Lazarus, though there is no documentation to substantiate this.

After several centuries, the Order went into decline and ceased to perform its original function of caring for lepers and managing leprosaria. Starting with Pope Innocent VIII in the 1489, attempts were made to merge the Order and its land holdings with the Knights of St. John. This was resisted by the Order in most countries where it still retained its houses. Eventually the Order of St. Lazarus in Italy was merged with the Order of St. Maurice under the Royal House of Savoy; while in in France it was united administratively with the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel under the Royal House of France. Today, the Savoyan Order still exists today as the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus; while the French foundation exists as the internationally-based Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem. Events in the late 20th century have resulted into a series of schisms of the MHOSLJ originally into two main "obediences" - the Malta and Paris Obediences. In 2004, the Paris Obedience underwent a further schism with the formation of the Orléans Obedience. The Malta and Paris Obediences reunited in 2008 under the leadership of Grand Master Don Carlos Gereda y de Borbón, Marquis of Almazán and the Spiritual Protection of His Beatitude Gregorios III, Greek Melkite Patriarch of Antioch, of All the East, of Jerusalem and Alexandria. The Orléans Obedience remains under the Grand Mastership of H.E. Jan Dobrzensky z Dobrzenic.

Membership

Membership of the Order of Saint Lazarus is by invitation only and is an honour granted by the Grand Magistry of the order. The order include among their members people of the European nobility, academics, politicians and senior clergy. Membership in the order is divided into two classes, knights of justice and knights of magistral grace, the former is restricted to members of families with noble titles. All members of the order are invested in one of the following ranks, regardless of whether they qualify for justice or magistral grace:

 Knight (GCLJ) or dame (GCLJ) grand cross

 Knight (KCLJ) or dame (DCLJ) commander

 Knight (KLJ) or dame (DLJ)

 Orléansist/French: serving brother (SBLJ) or serving sister (SSLJ), United Malta-Paris: commander (CLJ)

 Orléans/French: brother (BLJ) or Sister (SLJ), United Malta-Paris: officer (OLJ)

 United Malta-Paris: member (MLJ)

Gentlemen who are invested in the rank of knight (KLJ) or higher are entitled to the prenominal Chevalier and women invested in the rank of Dame or higher are entitled to the prenominal Dame. Clergy may be admitted into the Order in one of the ranks as assistant chaplain, chaplain, senior chaplain, ecclesial commander and ecclesial grand cross. There is also a companionate which is often used to honour individuals who have supported the work of the order or who have made a significant contribution to society

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