Grades
The Order currently has six classes for gentlemen:
- Knight Grand Cross, which wears the badge on a sash on the right shoulder, plus the star on the left chest;
- Grand Officer, which wears the badge on a necklet, plus the star on the left chest;
- Commander "jus patronato", which wears the badge on a necklet, plus the breast cross on the left chest;
- Commander, which wears the badge on a necklet;
- Officer, which wears the badge on a ribbon on the left chest;
- Knight, which wears the badge without crown on a ribbon on the left chest;
as well as three classes for ladies:
- Dame Grand Cross, which wears the badge on a bow with golden embroidery on the left shoulder;
- Dame Commander, which wears the badge on a bow on the left shoulder;
- Dame, which wears the badge without crown on a bow on the left shoulder.
Eventually, it became a requirement for a person to have already received the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus before receiving the Order of the Most Holy Annunciation.
Read more about this topic: Order Of Saints Maurice And Lazarus
Famous quotes containing the word grades:
“There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“He suggested that there might be men of genius in the lowest grades of life, however permanently humble and illiterate, who take their own view always, or do not pretend to see at all; who are as bottomless even as Walden Pond was thought to be, though they may be dark and muddy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)