Order of Saint Lazarus

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This article concerns the former religious, catholic-founded secular order of knighthood. For other uses of the name Lazarus, see Lazarus (disambiguation).

The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem originated in a leper hospital run by hospitaller brothers, founded in the twelfth century by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom. It was originally established to treat virulent diseases such as leprosy.

Today, the revived organisation has been engaged in a major charitable program to revive Christianity in Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, and the Near East: Lebanon, Syria, Palestine. Millions of dollars worth of food, clothing, medical equipment and supplies have been distributed in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Croatia. Because of this experience, the European Community commissioned the Order to transport more than 1.5 billion dollars in food to the hungry in Russia, resulting in new laurels for the St. Lazarus volunteers.

[edit] External links

Organisation's Official Websites:

• Official International Website of the United Malta & Paris Obedience
• Official International Website of the Orleans Paris Obedience
• The Spiritual Protector: Patriarch of Melkite Greek Catholic Church

Different and alternative views on St. Lazarus Order history:

• The Order of St Lazarus. A Short History
•   "Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company. 
• The Order of St Lazarus. Paris Obedience view for history
• The Order of St Lazarus. Orleans Obedience view for history
• Heraldry of the St Lazarus Order
• The Order of St. Lazarus by Guy Stair Sainty
• "Revived" Orders of Chivalry: the case of the Order of Saint Lazarus by François Velde
• The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem from the book: Orders of Knighthood and Merit : The Pontifical, Religious and Secularised Catholic-founded Orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See by Peter Bander van Buren. (Gerrards Cross : Colin Smythe, 1995)
• Statement by His Beatitude Gregorios III Patriarch of the Melkite-Greek Catholic Church and Spiritual Protector of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem

[edit] Bibliography

• Belloy, Pierre de, De l'origine et institution des divers ordres de chevalerie tant ecclésiastiques que prophanes, Paris, 1604, 2nd edition Toulouse, 1622
• Gautier de Sibert, History of The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Paris, 1772
• Francis Elphinstone, The Opponents of St Lazarus which appeared, The Armorial, vol.III, no.4, November 1962, Edinburgh
• Algrant y Cañete, James J. / Beaugourdon, Jean de St. Vincent de, Armorial of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Delft, 1983
• Morris of Balgonie, Stuart H., Ygr., The Insignia and Decorations of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Perthshire, 1986
• Francis Elphinstone, The Opponents of St Lazarus, The Armorial, vol.III, no.4, November 1962, Edinburgh
• Bander van Duren, Peter, Orders of Knighthood and of Merit-The Pontifical, Religious and Secularised Catholic-founded Orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See, Buckinghamshire, 1995, p. 495-513, XLV-XLVII
• Montilla Zavalía, Félix Alberto, Las Órdenes de Caballería y las Órdenes Honoríficas Católicas en la actualidad (Una visión histórico-jurídica y política) introduced by Dr. Isidoro J. Ruiz Moreno, Argentinian Lieutenant of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, Editorial Dunken, Buenos Aires, 2001, p. 16
• M. Ellul, The Green Eight Pointed Cross, Malta, 2004
• Charles Savona-Ventura, The Knight Hospitallers of Saint Lazarus, Malta, 2006

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.