A Historic Review of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and Malta

With a clear and authoritative account of the order's founding, its marvelous achievements throughout centuries, its kinship and co-operation with the Knights of the Temple, together with an illuminating survey of the movements of nations and their religious impulses and prejudices. Topics include: the rise and sway of monastic orders; how the Hospitallers of St. John the Almoner became the Knights Hospitallers of St. John the Baptist; the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem; the crusade of Europe's kings; the Knights of the Order of St. John as the Knights of Malta; the Sixth Langue of England, Scotland and Ireland; the establishment of the order in America.