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3 unusual facts about Continental Freemasonry


Alois Estermann

The text Bugie di sangue in Vaticano (1999), written by "a group of Vatican ecclesiastics and lays who cannot continue to avail, with their silence, official truth told by the Vatican", supports the hypothesis that Estermann was the Pope's personal guard, and that he was killed in the course of a supposed struggle between the Opus Dei and masonic parties within the Vatican hierarchy, both attempting to annex the Swiss guard.

Continental Freemasonry

The first instance of derecognition occurred in the United States shortly after the American Civil War.

In Brazil, for example the largest and oldest Masonic body, the Grande Oriente do Brasil is recognised by Anglo-American jurisdictions.


Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg

The Centre of Liaison and Information of Masonic Powers Signatories of Strasbourg Appeal (French: Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg) or CLIPSAS is an international group of Masonic Grand Orients and Grand Lodges that adhere to Continental Freemasonry and signed the Strasbourg Appeal.

Lodge Obreros de Hiram, no. 29

The Respectable Lodge Obreros de Hiram (Hiram's Workers), no. 29 is a masonic lodge in Seville (Spain), a liberal and adogmatic one, and under the auspices of the Gran Logia Simbólica Española.


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