Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem
Author: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, ca. 1660-1714
Image Title: Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem
Description: A member of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem provides pilgrims to Jerusalem with provisions. The origins of the order are to be found in the establishment c. 1080 of a hospice for pilgrims by the old Benedictine Abbey of Saint Maria Satina in Jerusalem. Its first historical personage is Master Gerard, under whom, after the successes of the Crusaders in 1099, the order greatly developed and obtained Papal sanction. Its original concern was to care for the sick poor. All members of the order were bound by the three religious vows, together with a fourth: to be serfs and slaves of their lords the sick. The sisters of Saint John lived in enclosed communities as canonesses regular.
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