The Maltese Cross Badge of THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM Russia Empire COPY

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The Maltese Cross Badge of THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM Russia Empire COPY:
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ScaleCopy of the Badge of the order of St. JOHN OF JERUSALEM & Booklet

One-sided copy. Made the front side of the Order.The size of the copy of the Badge is: height - 48 mm, width - 38 mm.
Wonderfull reproduction order of St John of Jerusalem
The Russian Johannine tradition.

Brother Gerard created the Order ofStJohnof Jerusalem as a distinctive Order from a previous Benedictine Establishment ofHospitallers. It provided for pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. After the success of thefirst Crusade, itbecame an independent monastic Order, and then as circumstances demanded grafted on a military identity, to become an Order of Knights. The Home (or Convent) of the Order moved to Rhodes (1312), where itruled asa sovereign power, then to Malta (1530) as avassal power, the sovereignty being held by the King of the Two Sicilies.

In 1798 following Napoleon\'s taking of Malta, the Order was dispersed, butwith a large number of refugee Knights sheltering inSt Petersburg, where theyelected the Russian Emperor, Paul I as their Grand Master - arival Grand Master to Ferdinand Hompesch then held indisgrace. Hompesch abdicated in 1799 leaving Paul as the only de-facto Grand Master. As the Order was under the obedience of the Roman Catholic Church, Paul I as anOrthodox Christian and ofanother obedience could never be accepted canonically as Grand Master from the Roman Catholic point of view. However, Paul I of Russia, without question, was Grand Master from the standpoint of International Law, and accepted as so,by various nations.

As de-facto Grand Master, Paul Iof Russiacreated a Russian tradition within the Hospitaller Order - the \"Russian Grand Priory\" open to all Christians - which whilst it could not be accepted as a canonical part of the Roman Catholic Order, it was never-the-less a de-facto part of the ancient Order (the Roman Catholic HQ was only too happy to receive money from the Russian Grand Priory). Paul I was murdered in 1801, when his son Alexandre I ascended the Imperial Throne.

Following Imperial Decrees of Alexander I of Russia in 1810/1811, a fiscal and legal separation of the Russian tradition of StJohn from the main Roman Catholic HQ was created. The generosity of Paul I in creating the two Russian Grand Priories (one Catholic and the other Œcumenical) and in providing a headquarters to the Order, was by 1810 a luxury the Russian State could not afford, and the main motive of the Decrees was undoubtedly to ease the financial strains caused by the Napoleonic wars in Europe. The Ukase though had the effect of creating a fiscal and legal separation and the Russian Order was now akin to the German JohanniterOrder, a Johannine tradition, but legally separate.

This Russian Hospitaller tradition of StJohn continued within the Russian Empire, and then into Exile following the Revolution in 1917. The group was Headquartered in Paris, and from 1958, the group was chaired by Grand Duke Vladimir (successor to the Russian Throne). This group regulated the claims of the descendants. Their concern was charitable works, and in 1939, membership was extended to non-Russians with an Association in Denmark. Whilst the original Association in Paris died out (circa 1976), the Demidoff family members maintained an interest in liaison with the Danish Group, and today Alexandre Tissot Demidoff (of Berkshire England) chairs an Association in Paris, which seeks to continue the humanitarian tradition of the Russian Grand Priory, to which Alexander Demidoff (of Paris, and son of Paul Demidoff above) belongs. In recent years, this Association has created Associations in other Countries.

Paul I had created under Russian Laws Family Commanders of the Russian Grand Priory with Hereditary Rights. It is the descendants of these Commanders who have, with the support of members of the Imperial family, continued that Russian tradition in exile.

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1. The new scale copy of the Badge of the Order of the St. JOHN OF JERUSALEM, in originalpackaging.

The copy is made of metal with a hot enamels. No gold and/or silver!

2. The booklet in the russian - 12 pages, 290х210mm. Description, photos related with Order

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