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unusual facts about Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great



DCSG

Dame Commander of Saint Gregory, female variant of a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See;

Félix Dehau

Félix-Étienne Dehau (1846–1934), Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, was a scion of a bourgeois family of Lille, France, an art collector, a patron of schools, orphanages and churches, and for 62 years, from 1872 to 1934, mayor of the commune of Bouvines.

John Henry Phelan

As a recompense for his many contributions, Pope Pius XI made Harry a Knight of St. Gregory in January 1933, an honor received previously by only one other Texan and only about fifty men in the entire country.

He was made a Knight of St. Gregory in January 1933 by Pope Pius XI .

John J. Studzinski

Pope John Paul II made Studzinski a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory.

Johno Johnson

Johnson has been awarded a life membership of the Labor Party, and a papal knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

The Hon John Richard "Johno" Johnson KCSG (born 26 July 1930) is a former Australian politician.

Oliver J. Flanagan

He was member of the Catholic fraternal organisation the Knights of Saint Columbanus, and in 1978 was conferred a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul I.

Paul Michaux

Michaux was awarded the Cross of Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius X, and in 1911 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester.

Sacred Heart Church, Hillsborough

The cost of construction of the church was £13,000 and £10,000 of that was donated by a Mrs. Wake, the widow of Philip Wake KSG, JP, magistrate for the West Riding.

Sigmund Sternberg

In 1976, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and in 1985 he was made a Papal Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (KCSG) by Pope John Paul II.

St. Mary's Knockbeg College

Myles Keogh, second lieutenant of his unit in the papal army's Battalion of St. Patrick (1860-1862) who was made Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX.

Vince Whibbs

KSG (February 8, 1920 – May 30, 2006) was a popular politician and business leader in Pensacola, Florida.

William Edwin Franklin

Four priests were named Chaplains to His Holiness, eight lay men were honored as Knights of St. Gregory the Great, three women received the honor of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and 11 men and women received the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.


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