The Ordres Royaux, Militaires & Hospitaliers de Saint Lazare de Jerusalem & de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel at the turn of the 19th century

Abstract

The Crusader Hospitaller and eventually Military Order of Saint Lazarus, established in Jerusalem in the early decades of the 12th century, was to see itself divided into two main branches by the first decade of the 17th century with a Savoyard branch named the Ordine dei SS Maurizio e Lazzaro [est. 1572] and the French branch named the Ordres Royaux, Militaires & Hospitaliers de Saint Lazare de Jerusalem & de Notre Dame du Mont-Carmel reunis [est. 1608]. Both these Orders remained under canonical control though they were laicized on the basis of the 1568 Pope Pius V Bull entitled Sacrosantum Ecclesiae Dei.