![]() ![]() John, armed combatants for the defence of the remaining possessions of the Christians in Asia. Lazarus of Jerusalem, following the example of the Order of St. It was at this time also that the Order of St. Lazarus, although still called "of Jerusalem", had been transferred to Acre, where it had been ceded territory by the Templars ( 1240), and where it received the confirmation of its privileges by Urban IV ( 1264). ![]() Clement IV obliged the secular clergy to confine all lepers whatsoever, men or women, clerics or laymen, religious or secular, in the houses of this order ( 1265).Īt the time these favours were granted, Jerusalem had fallen again into the hands of the Muslims. Urban IV assured it the same immunities as were granted to the monastic orders ( 1262). Alexander IV recognized its existence under the Rule of St. The popes for their part were not sparing of their favours. This was the origin of the military commanderies whose contributions, called responsions, flowed into Jerusalem, swollen by the collections which the hospital was authorized to make in Europe. This example was followed by Henry II of England, and by Emperor Frederick II. Louis VII, on his return from the Second Crusade, gave it the Château of Broigny, near Orléans ( 1154). It was endowed not only by the sovereigns of the Latin realm, but by all the states of Europe. The house at Jerusalem owed to the general interest devoted to the holy places in the Middle Ages a rapid and substantial growth in goods and privileges of every kind. It is believed the Order ceased military activities from the early 14th century In 1291 25 brethren were present at Acre, all being killed. It is known that a contingent of Lazar brethern were present at La Forbie, and in 1253 they were part of the army under St Louis. Lazarus of Jerusalem is believed to have become a military order in c. Lazarus of Paris, depended solely and directly on the bishop of that city, and was a mere priory when it was given by the archbishop to the missionaries of St Vincent de Paul, who have retained the name of Lazarists ( 1632). Lazarus, from which, however, no dependence whatever on St. Many of these houses bore the name of St. However, these houses did not form a congregation each house was autonomous, and supported to a great extent by the lepers themselves, who were obliged when entering to bring with them their implements, and who at their death willed their goods to the institution if they had no children. Louis there were eight hundred in France alone. From the time of the crusades, with the spread of leprosy, leper hospitals became very numerous throughout Europe, so that at the death of St. ![]() The Middle Ages surrounded with a touching pity these the greatest of all unfortunates, these miselli, as they were called. It is not proved, though it has been asserted, that this was the case at Jerusalem. In some leper hospitals of the Middle Ages even the master had to be chosen from among the lepers. In return they were regarded as brothers or sisters of the house which sheltered them, and they obeyed the common rule which united them with their religious guardians. Lazarus on the contrary were condemned to perpetual seclusion. John were merely visitors, and changed constantly the lepers of St. Because of its special aim, it had quite a different organization. John, but without encroaching on the field of the latter. The Order of Saint Lazarus was indeed purely an order of hospitallers from the beginning, as was that of St. Basil, while that of Jerusalem adopted the hospital Rule of St. These Eastern leper hospitals followed the Rule of St. Lazarus claimed to be the continuation, in order to have the appearance of remote antiquity and to pass as the oldest of all orders. Even before the twelfth century there were leper hospitals in the East, of which the Knights of St. ![]()
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