. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Order ofSt. John of Jerusalem. Fac-similes of Woodcuts by Jost Amman, in a work entitled Cleri totius Romanse ccclesias . . habitus: 4to., Frankfort, 1585. Island of Martigues, in Provence, proposed to the brothers who managedthe hospital to renounce the world, to don a regular dress, and to form anuncloistered monastic order under the name of the Hospitallers. PopePascal II. appointed Gerard director of the new institution, which heformally authorised, took the Hospitallers under his protection, and granted
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. Order ofSt. John of Jerusalem. Fac-similes of Woodcuts by Jost Amman, in a work entitled Cleri totius Romanse ccclesias . . habitus: 4to., Frankfort, 1585. Island of Martigues, in Provence, proposed to the brothers who managedthe hospital to renounce the world, to don a regular dress, and to form anuncloistered monastic order under the name of the Hospitallers. PopePascal II. appointed Gerard director of the new institution, which heformally authorised, took the Hospitallers under his protection, and grantedthem many privileges. The regulations of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem not only MILITARY ORDERS. imposed upon the brethren the triple vow of chastity, poverty, and obedience ;they enjoined upon them, besides the duties of hospitality, the exercise ofarms, in order that they might defend the kingdom of Jerusalem against theattacks of the unbelievers. The opportunity was soon afforded them ofputting aside their purely charitable character, and of becoming men of war(Fig, 139),. Fig. 139.—Fortress of the Knights Hospitallers, in Syria, taken from the Kurds by the Franksabout the year 1125, and rebuilt in 1202 A representation of it as restored.—Engravingfrom Monuments of the Architecture of the Crusaders in Syria, by M. G. Rey. Driven out of Jerusalem by the victorious Saladin, who retook that cityon the 19th of October, 1191, the Hospitallers were the last to leave theHoly Land, and transferred their hospital to Margat, after ransoming fromthe Saracens more than a thousand captive Crusaders; they remained thereuntil the end of the siege of Acre by the Christians, in which they took anactive and glorious share, and they then established , themselves in thereconquered city and took the name of Knights of St. John of Acre. Againdriven from their new residence by the , the Hospitallers asked the MILITARY ORDERS. »75 King of Cyprus to allow them to settle in his dom
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