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5 unusual facts about Order of Saint Lazarus


Bon-Joseph Dacier

Journals edited by Bon Joseph Dacier included the Journal des sçavans, and he also wrote on the history of the Order of Saint Lazarus (of which he was a member).

Christina Odenberg

Odenberg is the spiritual protector of the Swedish section of the Order of Saint Lazarus

Gordon Atkinson

1980– ; Knight of Justice, St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Board of Directors St. John Ambulance and St. John Fdn (1980)

Ivan Petch

He was also appointed a Knight of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers

Earl Ferrers was a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society and Grand Prior of the Grand Bailiwick & Priory of England and Wales of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem.


Burton Lazars

The Order of Saint Lazarus established leper hospitals with the first being in Jerusalem in the year 530.


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