James Herman Van der Veldt

FOREWORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD Part I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

THE ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD Part II THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM

THE ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD Part III THE IBERIAN MILITARY ORDERS

THE ECCLESIASTICAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD Part IV PONTIFICAL ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD

ILLUSTRATIONS MILITARY ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD

FOOTNOTES

Transcriber's Notes

by
James van Der Veldt, O.F.M.
of
The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America Press
620 Michigan Avenue, N.E.
Washington 17, D. C.
1956

Reprinted from
The American Ecclesiastical Review

October, November, December, 1955
and January, 1956

First printing—April, 1956
Second printing—July, 1956
Third printing—November, 1957