. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . JIdret eel - D cihtdgKl-w. after the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099 it attained underits director Gerardus an independent importance. This new order of theHospitallers, or Knights of St. John, distinguished by a black mantle witha white cross on the breast, soon assumed the character of an ecclesiasticalorder and selected John the Baptist as their patron instead of the Egyptiansaint. Raymond de Puy, the commander of the order, caused severalimportant buildings to be erecte
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . JIdret eel - D cihtdgKl-w. after the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099 it attained underits director Gerardus an independent importance. This new order of theHospitallers, or Knights of St. John, distinguished by a black mantle witha white cross on the breast, soon assumed the character of an ecclesiasticalorder and selected John the Baptist as their patron instead of the Egyptiansaint. Raymond de Puy, the commander of the order, caused severalimportant buildings to be erected in 1130-40, but the Knights of St. Johnhad to leave Jerusalem in 1187. Saladin (p. Ixxxiv) granted the property ofthe Hospitallers as an endowment (wakf) to the Mosque of Omar. In1216 Shihab ed-Din, nephew of Saladin, converted the hospital-church into c. Church of the Redeemer. JERUSALEM. 4. Route. 47 a hospital, the Arabic-Persian name of which, MUristdn, was transferredto the whole plot of ground. The hospice, which the Moslems allowedto subsist, was still at the beginning of the 14th cent, capable of con-taining 1000 perso
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