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Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united
Cross of the order
Awarded by the King of France
TypeOrder of chivalry
Established1608
StatusExtinct
FounderHenry IV of France


Insignia of the order (on bottom row)

The Royal Military and Hospitaller Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem united (French: Ordre royal militaire et hospitalier de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel et de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem réuni) was a chivalric order instituted in 1608 by personal union of the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus in France and the new Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel of King Henry IV of France. The union of the two orders was recognised by a bull of Cardinal Louis de Bourbon, papal legate in France, dated 5 June 1668.

After the turmoil of the French Revolution, the order ceased to enjoy royal protection in 1830.

Claims of legacy

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The modern ecumenical schisms of the Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910) claim legacy from the suppressed French branch. One group is under the spiritual protection of the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.[1] Another is under the protection of Henri d'Orléans,[2] the Orléanist claimant to the former crown of France, with spiritual protection under a Roman Catholic cardinal. The Catholic Church does not formally recognize these factions nor any other non-Vatican sanctioned order regardless of dynastic claim, pedigree, or foundational antiquity (e.g. Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus or the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George).[3]

The different current Military and Hospitaller Orders of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem maintain that after 1830, the French foundation of the Order of Saint Lazarus continued under the governance of a council of officers under the protection of the Melkite Patriarchy.[4] Documentation[where?] to the subsequent decades[when?] of the 19th century is scant[dubious – discuss] and equivocal,[dubious – discuss][according to whom?] but the order is alleged[according to whom?] to have been active philanthropically[how?] in Haifa in the mid-19th century,[5] while contemporary biographies[according to whom?] do mention late 19th-century individuals[who?] as having been members of the Hospitaller Nobles of St. Lazarus.[dubious – discuss][according to whom?] The name Order of Saint Lazarus then appeared again in 1910 with new statutes.[dubious – discuss][6]

Charles Savona-Ventura, grand archivist and historian of the order, holds that it remained under apostolic authority since the Holy See did not promulgate any contrarius actus in respect to either of the two orders during the late 18th and 19th centuries.[7][8] However, Charles Moeller and Michael Foster writing in 1911 maintain that the order was extinct after 1824 with the death of King Louis XVIII,[9][10] ignoring the fact that the French Almanach Royal continues to list King Charles X as the order's protector until 1830.[11] It is also true, that Roman Canon 120 §1 and §2 specifies that unless an order is explicitly abolished by the Vatican (which never happened) it continues on as a canonical entity[citation needed] for at least 100 years after the death of its last knight who was the Marquis des Gouttes, who died in 1857. This assured the order's lawful existence until at least 1957 giving it time to find a protector and to reorganize, which it did several times right through the 19th century until its secularization in 1910 - see "Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)".[citation needed] There remain authors such as Guy Stair Sainty who in spite of the legal and documentary evidence continue to challenge the legitimacy of the contemporary organisations claiming to be the 'Order of Saint Lazarus'.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Declaration on the Ninth Centenary of the Royal Recognition of the Order St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Kevekaer, Germany, 27 May 2012.
  2. ^ Pfeifle, F. & de la Martiniere, J.P.G. (2014). Dr. Hans von Leden, Grand Hospitaller of the Order of St. Lazarus & Member of the Chivalry Committee. The Augustan Omnibus, vol. XXX , No. 2, Issue # 126, (pp.38-42).
  3. ^ Van Duren, Peter Bander. (1995). Orders of knighthood and of merit: the pontifical, religious and secularised Catholic-founded orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe publishers
  4. ^ Bander van Duren, Peter (1995) Orders of Knighthood and of Merit-The Pontifical, Religious and Secularised Catholic-founded Orders and their relationship to the Apostolic See, Buckinghamshire, ss. 495-513, XLV-XLVII
  5. ^ "Temple et Hospice du Mont-Carmel en Palestine par A. Dumas et A. Dumas".
  6. ^ Rivista Araldica, November 1913, II(II):p.679-683
  7. ^ C. Savona-Ventura. The French Revolution's mark on the annals of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem. Journal of the Monastic Military Orders, 2010, 3:51-70
  8. ^ C. Savona-Ventura. The History of the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem. Nova Publishers, New York, 2014, +196p. ISBN 9781629485638.
  9. ^ Moeller, Charles. "The Military Orders." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 22 Jun. 2015
  10. ^ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Cyclopedia of names. Century Company. 1 January 1906. p. 761 – via Internet Archive. Military Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
  11. ^ "Almanach Royal pour l'anné 1770-1830".
  12. ^ "Order of St. Lazarus / Guy Stair Sainty". www.stichtingargus.nl.

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