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Knights of Malta and Knights of Rhodes: see Knights Hospitalers Knights Hospitalers, members of the military and religious Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, sometimes called the Knights of St. John and the Knights of Jerusalem. The symbol of the Order of St.
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Knights of Malta

or Hospitallers in full (since 1961) Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta

Religious order founded at Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for sick pilgrims. Recognized by the pope in 1113, the order built hostels along the routes to the Holy Land. The Hospitallers acquired wealth and lands and began to combine the task of tending the sick with waging war on Islam, eventually becoming a major military force in the Crusades. After the fall of the crusader states, they moved their headquarters to Cyprus and later to Rhodes (1309). They ruled Rhodes until it fell to the Turks in 1523; thereupon they moved to Malta, where they ruled until their defeat by Napoleon I in 1798. In 1834 they moved to their present headquarters in Rome.

A graduate of Georgetown University Law School, Rooney is a member of the Knights of Malta and is said to be active in several Catholic social organizations.

Major Bush donor rewarded with post of Vatican ambassador by Church & State

The rough and tumble of Neapolitan streets give way to the confined, weary world of the island domain of the Knights of Malta, to pass into the almost impressionistic figures and dream-like spaces of Sicily.

Tortured genius: the miracle of Caravaggio's art by Imbelli, Robert P. / Commonweal

For weeks the Knights of Malta held off wave after wave of Turkish troops.

Armada of the cross: the future of Europe depended on the victory of ... by Grigg, William Norman / The New American

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