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The History Of The Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem*
ample revenues arising from fields , A'ineyards , and orchards , AA'hich , at the time of the Crusades had risen to considerable importance . But even Avithin the city , merchants from Amalphi had built a residence scarcely a stone ' s throAV from the holy sepulchre , wliich must have been considerable , for Vitriacus tells us it occupied an entire quarter of the area Avithin the Avails ,
to AA'hich Avas shortly after added , from the tolerance or cupidity of the Pasha , a church or chapel , called from its invocation , and to distinguish it as exclusively dedicated to the ritual of the AVest , St . Maria de Latina . In this hospital the abbot had numerous monks , who , besides the usual duties of the choir , received poor pilgrims for support , and those wounded by roving
bands of Curds on their road , for cure and medical succour , and xvhen the number of pilgrims increased beyond the adequacy of the first xenodochium , a second Avas built as a filial , also furnished with its chapel , dedicated and distinguished by its invocation to St . John Elemon ( the charitable ) , Patriarch of Alexandria , whose fame Avas then Avidely spread in the East .
A pilgrim of the name of Gerard had arrived , some say from Provence , but others Avith greater probability from Amalphi , and dedicated his life to the sendee of charity , so that at the date of the occupation of the holy city by the Christians , they found him ( a striking instance of Mahommedan tolerance ) governor or prepositus of the original xenodochium , and possibly this same Gerard ( but in that age it was a favourite name , as the reader Avill find if he count the number adduced in the Index
Generalis to Baronius' Annals ) , who , under the title of abbot , bore a crucifix before the Christian A'an at the battle of Joppa , in 1101 ; a sacred burthen , which , hoAvever , totally precludes the idea of a Avarrior . It xvill not be necessary here to repeat the accounts of this hospital and its foundation ( from 1830 edit , of Dugdale ' s
Monasticon , vol . iv . partii ., p . 788 ) , except that as they seem to have been unknoxvn to all continental writers , ancl to our author , they give therefore additional corroboration to the existence of hospitals or reception-houses for poor or xvounded pilgrims from the West at Jerusalem , ancl at the date of its capture . The first is from an olcl MS . in the possession of Gilbert North ,
in 1652 ; and the second from the Cotton Collect . ( Otho , B . 3 , fol . 189 ) , xvhich , notxvithstancling their discursiveness and barbarous Latin , are amusing ; as where Judas Machabams in the first is claimed as the founder of this military priesthood and the hospital as his residence . Sometimes the relation verges near impiety , as xvhen it fixes on the same location for the scene xxhere Christ first appears to his disciples after his asccn-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The History Of The Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem*
ample revenues arising from fields , A'ineyards , and orchards , AA'hich , at the time of the Crusades had risen to considerable importance . But even Avithin the city , merchants from Amalphi had built a residence scarcely a stone ' s throAV from the holy sepulchre , wliich must have been considerable , for Vitriacus tells us it occupied an entire quarter of the area Avithin the Avails ,
to AA'hich Avas shortly after added , from the tolerance or cupidity of the Pasha , a church or chapel , called from its invocation , and to distinguish it as exclusively dedicated to the ritual of the AVest , St . Maria de Latina . In this hospital the abbot had numerous monks , who , besides the usual duties of the choir , received poor pilgrims for support , and those wounded by roving
bands of Curds on their road , for cure and medical succour , and xvhen the number of pilgrims increased beyond the adequacy of the first xenodochium , a second Avas built as a filial , also furnished with its chapel , dedicated and distinguished by its invocation to St . John Elemon ( the charitable ) , Patriarch of Alexandria , whose fame Avas then Avidely spread in the East .
A pilgrim of the name of Gerard had arrived , some say from Provence , but others Avith greater probability from Amalphi , and dedicated his life to the sendee of charity , so that at the date of the occupation of the holy city by the Christians , they found him ( a striking instance of Mahommedan tolerance ) governor or prepositus of the original xenodochium , and possibly this same Gerard ( but in that age it was a favourite name , as the reader Avill find if he count the number adduced in the Index
Generalis to Baronius' Annals ) , who , under the title of abbot , bore a crucifix before the Christian A'an at the battle of Joppa , in 1101 ; a sacred burthen , which , hoAvever , totally precludes the idea of a Avarrior . It xvill not be necessary here to repeat the accounts of this hospital and its foundation ( from 1830 edit , of Dugdale ' s
Monasticon , vol . iv . partii ., p . 788 ) , except that as they seem to have been unknoxvn to all continental writers , ancl to our author , they give therefore additional corroboration to the existence of hospitals or reception-houses for poor or xvounded pilgrims from the West at Jerusalem , ancl at the date of its capture . The first is from an olcl MS . in the possession of Gilbert North ,
in 1652 ; and the second from the Cotton Collect . ( Otho , B . 3 , fol . 189 ) , xvhich , notxvithstancling their discursiveness and barbarous Latin , are amusing ; as where Judas Machabams in the first is claimed as the founder of this military priesthood and the hospital as his residence . Sometimes the relation verges near impiety , as xvhen it fixes on the same location for the scene xxhere Christ first appears to his disciples after his asccn-