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Chiyaley,
the same period , under the name of the Order of St . Lazarus ; but though it obtained various privileges , and was well endowed , it never attained any fame . "Wh y it did not is obvious : the cure of leprosy was its grand object , and the Grand Master was off necessity a leper . Their dress was green , and their hospitals were styled
" Lazarettos . ' The venerable Du Puis for forty years presided over the Order , scarred with wounds the tokens of many conflicts . He ended his days in the sanctuary of the Order , 1160 . At the close of our article is given a list of the several Grand Masters of the Order ; our space will not admit of their valiant deeds , we shall , therefore , only notice the more prominent events connected with their history— -being their early deeds wrapt up in the history of the Crusades .
At the disastrous battle of Tiberias , i . n . 1187 , Gamier , the eighth Grand Master , received a mortal wound ; and when the few Hospitallers assembled to elect a successor , the last days of Jerusalem were at hand , and it was with difficulty Ermengard Daps w as induced to accept the office . On the ca , pitulation of the Holy City ,
shortly afterwards , Saladin , being made acquainted with the benevolent attention which the Hospitallers w ere in the habit of bestowing on the sick and wounded , granted ten of them permission to remain a year longer in Jerusalem , to perfect the cure of all the sufferers who had been confided to their care .
The remnant of the Hospitallers took refuge in Tyre ; and aided in successfully repelling the attack of the mighty Saladin . The nuns belonging to the hospital found an asylum at Sixenne , between Saragossa and Lerida , where Queen Sancha of Arragon founded a magnificent convent in token of her reverence and respect for the
Order . On the capture of Acre , A . n . 1191 , that fortress was made the principal residence of the Hospitallers , it having been previously fixed at the Castle of Margat after the fall of Jerusalem . In 1192 a new Order was instituted by a bull of Pope Celestine III ., similar to the two military Orders , which took , for its title ,
"The Teutonic Knights of St . Mary of Jerusalem ; " their mantle was white , bearing a black cross embroidered with gold . The example of liichard , our lion-hearted king , stimulated the whole of Europe to arms ; and the crowds of young aspirants for knighthood , who w ere constantly arriving in Palestine , generally
gave a preference to the banner of St . John . James de Vitre , then bishop of Acre , says " never before had the Order been so wealthy , or its influence so extensive , as at this period . " It possessed principalities , towns , and villages ; and he enumerates no less than 19 , 000 manors , —the term manor being understood to signify the tillage of
; l plough and two oxen . On the election of Baldwin of Flanders to the throne of Constantinople , a great number of the Knights of St . John , at his pressing entreaty , repaired to his capital , and were put in possession of two establishments , together with some extensive estates . Andrew , king
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Chiyaley,
the same period , under the name of the Order of St . Lazarus ; but though it obtained various privileges , and was well endowed , it never attained any fame . "Wh y it did not is obvious : the cure of leprosy was its grand object , and the Grand Master was off necessity a leper . Their dress was green , and their hospitals were styled
" Lazarettos . ' The venerable Du Puis for forty years presided over the Order , scarred with wounds the tokens of many conflicts . He ended his days in the sanctuary of the Order , 1160 . At the close of our article is given a list of the several Grand Masters of the Order ; our space will not admit of their valiant deeds , we shall , therefore , only notice the more prominent events connected with their history— -being their early deeds wrapt up in the history of the Crusades .
At the disastrous battle of Tiberias , i . n . 1187 , Gamier , the eighth Grand Master , received a mortal wound ; and when the few Hospitallers assembled to elect a successor , the last days of Jerusalem were at hand , and it was with difficulty Ermengard Daps w as induced to accept the office . On the ca , pitulation of the Holy City ,
shortly afterwards , Saladin , being made acquainted with the benevolent attention which the Hospitallers w ere in the habit of bestowing on the sick and wounded , granted ten of them permission to remain a year longer in Jerusalem , to perfect the cure of all the sufferers who had been confided to their care .
The remnant of the Hospitallers took refuge in Tyre ; and aided in successfully repelling the attack of the mighty Saladin . The nuns belonging to the hospital found an asylum at Sixenne , between Saragossa and Lerida , where Queen Sancha of Arragon founded a magnificent convent in token of her reverence and respect for the
Order . On the capture of Acre , A . n . 1191 , that fortress was made the principal residence of the Hospitallers , it having been previously fixed at the Castle of Margat after the fall of Jerusalem . In 1192 a new Order was instituted by a bull of Pope Celestine III ., similar to the two military Orders , which took , for its title ,
"The Teutonic Knights of St . Mary of Jerusalem ; " their mantle was white , bearing a black cross embroidered with gold . The example of liichard , our lion-hearted king , stimulated the whole of Europe to arms ; and the crowds of young aspirants for knighthood , who w ere constantly arriving in Palestine , generally
gave a preference to the banner of St . John . James de Vitre , then bishop of Acre , says " never before had the Order been so wealthy , or its influence so extensive , as at this period . " It possessed principalities , towns , and villages ; and he enumerates no less than 19 , 000 manors , —the term manor being understood to signify the tillage of
; l plough and two oxen . On the election of Baldwin of Flanders to the throne of Constantinople , a great number of the Knights of St . John , at his pressing entreaty , repaired to his capital , and were put in possession of two establishments , together with some extensive estates . Andrew , king