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LAZARUS, ST, ORDER OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAZARUS, ST, See also:ORDER OF , a religious and military order founded in See also:Jerusalem about the See also:middle of the 12th See also:century. Its See also:primary See also:object was the tending of the sick, especially lepers, of whom Lazarus (see See also:LAZAR) was regarded as the See also:patron. From the 13th century, the order made its way into various countries of See also:EuropeSee also:Sicily, See also:Lower See also:Italy and See also:Germany (Thuringia); but its See also:chief centre of activity was See also:France, where See also:Louis IX. (1253) gave the members the lands of Boigny near See also:Orleans and a See also:building at the See also:gates of See also:Paris, which they turned into a lazar-See also:house for the use of the lepers of the See also:city. A papal See also:confirmation was obtained from See also:Alexander IV. in 1255. The knights were one See also:hundred in number, and possessed the right of marrying and receiving See also:pensions charged on ecclesiastical benefices. An eight-pointed See also:cross was the insignia of both the See also:French and See also:Italian orders. The See also:gradual disappearance of leprosy combined with other causes to secularize the order more and more. In See also:Savoy in 1572 it was merged by See also:Gregory XIII. (at the instance of Emanuel Philibert, See also:duke of Savoy) in the order of St See also:Maurice (see See also:KNIGHTHOOD AND See also:CHIVALRY: Orders of Knighthood, Italy). The chief task of this See also:branch was the See also:defence of the See also:Catholic faith, especially against the Protestantism of See also:Geneva. It continued to exist till the second See also:half of the 19th century.

In 16o8 it was in France See also:

united by See also:Henry IV. with the order of Notre-See also:Dame du Mont-See also:Carmel. It was treated with especial favour by Louis XIV., and the most brilliant See also:period of its existence was from 1673 to 1691, under the See also:marquis de See also:Louvois. From that See also:time it began to decay. It was abolished at the Revolution, reintroduced during the Restoration, and formally abolished by a See also:state See also:decree of 1830. See L. Mainbourg, Hist. See also:des croisades (1682; Eng. trans. by Nalson, 1686) ; P. See also:Helyot, Hist. des ordres monastiques (1714), pp. 257, 386; J. G. Uhlhorn, See also:Die christliche Liebesthatigkeit See also:im Mittelalter (See also:Stuttgart, 1884) ; articles in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie See also:fur protestantische Theologie, xi. (1902) and Wetzer and Welte's (Catholic) Kirchenlexikon, vii. (1891).

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