Order Of Saint Lazarus
http://www.st-lazarus.net (Malta) http://www.orderofsaintlazarus.com (Orléans)
http://www.oslj.org (Paris)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 in 1098 by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was established to treat leprosy, its knights originally being lepers themselves.
The Order of St Lazarus was once one of the less-known and less-documented orders, but in the twenty first century, it has become an order that is far more accessible to those outside of its ministry, through social network sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The symbol of the Order is a green eight-pointed Maltese Cross. It is believed to have given rise to the use of the green cross as the universal symbol for retail pharmacies worldwide. The word lazarette, in some languages being synonymous with hospital, is believed to also be derived from the hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus.
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“This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)
“A. Well, an old order is a violent one.
This proves nothing. Just one more truth, one more
Element in the immense disorder of truths.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“This Light inspires, and plays upon
The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
As through a Trunk, or whisp’ring hole,
Such language as no mortal Ear
But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
“There is a place prepared in hell,
For to sit upon a serpent’s knee.’”
—Unknown. Dives and Lazarus (l. 39–40)