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RMC Chaplain Invested as a Knight Templar
The Sovereign Military Order of Jerusalem is also commonly known as the Knights Templar and is founded on the principles first adopted by the Templars in 1118 A.D. The Middle Ages saw the emergence of two knightly Orders: the Order of Malta with a specific mission to hospitals, and the Knights Templar whose role was to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land. Today the Knights Templar is a secular-military order of chivalry – a knighthood which is intended for accomplished Christian military and civilian men (Knights) and women (Dames) who have demonstrated that they possess high ethical and moral principles and who wish to carry on the ideals of the Order. Like the Knight Templars of old, the Order operates as a modern day network of educated professionals such as senior government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, senior clergy, military officers, physicians and surgeons, engineers and historians. These members of the Order provide both a highly respected body of expertise and a credible influential voice to support the less fortunate of the world, and to promote the time-tested chivalric ideals of honour, honesty, civility, tolerance, care of others, and support for ecumenical religious faith throughout individual nations and throughout the world community. Source:
20960 LT(N) Sue Stefko (RMC ’97) |
