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Intro
The Pilgrim Society and the Order of the Garter are the controlling inner-parts of the Catholic military order called the Sovereign Military Order of Malta ("Knights of Malta", or "SMOM" for short). The Jesuits are ultimately in control of both the Vatican and the Military Order of Malta.
The Military Order of Malta is one of the oldest and most elite Vatican military orders in the network of Roman Catholic organizations. Until recently, it limited its membership to Italians and foreign heads of state. In 1927, however, an exception was made for the United States, given its emerging status as a world power. SMOM opened an American branch, awarding knighthood or damehood to several American Catholic business tycoons.
"Via the so-called Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), Opus Dei, the Papal-loyal Knighthood Orders network (the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the Order of St Januarius, the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St George, the Royal Order of Francis I, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, the Knights of Columbus, the Order of St Sylvester, the Order of St Gregory, the House of Savoy's Order of Sts Maurice & Lazarus, the Teutonic Knights etc, etc, the list goes on & on, but those are some of the most significant ones) & their endless connections to global politics, military, intelligence, finance & industry, not to mention entwinedness with high-level "regular" (openly UGLE-alligned) & "irregular" Freemasonry (Grand Orient Freemasonry, Memphis-Misraim, CLIPSAS network, P2, etc), the reach of Rome is unparalleled, a situation that has remained static for over two millennium, despite what they teach in schools about "American" hegemony." - Troy
Alternative names and sub-groups
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Knights of Malta, Chevaliers of Malta)
- The Knights Hospitaller
- Knights Templar (also the name of a high-level masonic degree) (The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta)
- Knights of Rhodes
- Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta
- Venerable Order of St. John
- Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta
Members
See: Knights of Malta
Estimated present membership: 12.500 ("The organisation has 12,500 members and 80,000 volunteers ..." [1])
- Background sources:
- Membership sources:
- Category:Knights of Malta (to process)
- Unhived Mind forum research (to process):
- Other: [2], [3], [4]/[5]
- background info and photo's
- "their inner cores known as the Order of the Garter and the more powerful Pilgrim Society (more info)."
- "The order has 12,500 members worldwide and is run by the Council Complete of State, an inner core made up of some 60 professed knights who have taken monk-like vows of poverty, obedience and chastity." [6]
- The SMOM have 3 centers within the United States:
- St. Patrick's Cathedral (CFR)
- Aspen Institute (see also: Royal Institute of International Affairs, now named Chatham House)
- (probably in Colorado)
Military Order of Malta operations
The Knights of Malta of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) are mainly involved in:
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- Working for and with the Black nobility, the Vatican and the various Papal and Royal Orders, especially the Jesuits who are ultimately in control of the Vatican and the Military Order of Malta. The SMOM most powerful controlling inner-cores are the Order of the Garter, which in turn is controlled by the Pilgrim Society.
- "the Commonwealth of Nations, headed by Queen Elizabeth II, is made up of 53 nations, spanning the globe, accounting for one-fifth of the land mass of the Earth, and a very high percentage of its strategic resources and population. Though nominally an alliance of independent states, the Commonwealth was itself founded, in the late 19th Century, as a perpetuation of the British Empire." - Jeffrey Steinberg [7]
- Global business operations
- Central banks and their superstructure the Bank for International Settlements (1930, Switzerland, 55 central bank members). Note the Basel Committee accords on international banking laws and regulations: Basel I and Basel II. See also: [8], [9], [10].
- BIS members: Bank of England (1694), Banque de France (1716/1800), US Federal Reserve (1913), Vatican Bank (1942), Deutsche Bundesbank (1948/1957), European Central Bank (1998), ...
- US Federal Reserve ownership: M.M. Warburg & Co (1798, Germany), Chase Manhattan Bank (1799, US), N M Rothschild & Sons (1811, London), Lazard Brothers Bank (1848, US), Israel Moses Sieff (?, Italy), Lehman Brothers (1850, US, now part of Barclays plc), Kuhn (1867, later part of Lehman Brothers) and Goldman Sachs (1869, US).
- "... the little-known but extremely powerful Bank for International Settlements spent the 1930s and '40s quietly laundering the Nazi's ill-gotten gains under a cloak of neutrality." [11] (See also: [12], Banking in Switzerland)
- BIS members: Bank of England (1694), Banque de France (1716/1800), US Federal Reserve (1913), Vatican Bank (1942), Deutsche Bundesbank (1948/1957), European Central Bank (1998), ...
- Banks
- Examples: Citibank, Bank of America (Jesuit controlled), ...
- Investment banking (real-estate investment & development, venture capital, hedge funds, securities trading, ...)
- Secret banking and Offshore banking [13]
- Insurance companies
- Global control funding organizations:
- Rockefeller Foundation (1913)
- "... founded by (Pilgrim Society and Knight of Malta members) John D. Rockefeller ("Senior"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller ("Junior"), and Senior's principal business and philanthropic adviser, Frederick T. Gates, in New York State in 1913."
- Ford Foundation (1936)
- International Monetary Fund (created at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944)
- "The bankruptcy of Iceland, now receiving a $2.1 billion two-year loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “to support an economic recovery program,” has been depicted as something that could never happen to America." ... "On November 15, the crisis goes global, as the Bush White House hosts an “international summit” designed, in the words of some of those participating, to create new “international financial architecture.” This means increasing the power and financial resources of international agencies like the IMF, possibly by implementing global taxes on the U.S. and other nations." ... "Anticipating the event, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the current turmoil in the world economy offers a chance to build a “new global order” based on cooperation and opportunity. Brown summarized his approach as “internationalist, interventionist and progressive,” says a release from his office." ... "Many of those attending the Washington, D.C. event will be associated with the Socialist International, which issued a statement calling for the new international financial architecture to include a World Financial Organization. A World Tax Organization can be expected to follow. It has been on the U.N. drawing board for years." [14]
- World Bank Group (1945)
- "The World Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, which emerged from the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1 July – 22 July 1944)." ... "Technically the World Bank is part of the United Nations system."
- World Bank divisions:
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1945)
- International Finance Corporation (1956)
- International Development Association (1960)
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (1966)
- Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (1988)
- See also: World Bank Institute (1955, formerly named the Economic Development Institute), Independent Evaluation Group (formerly called the Operations Evaluation Department).
- World Federalist Movement (1947, Switzerland)
- "... brings together organizations and individuals which support the establishment of a global federal system of strengthened and democratized global institutions with plenary constitutional power accountable to the citizens of the world and a division of international authority among separate global agencies." ... "has had Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC since 1970 and is affiliated with the UN Department of Public Information."
- European Investment Bank (1958, Luxembourg)
- "... established in 1958 under the Treaty of Rome to provide financing for capital investment furthering European Union policy objectives ... Outside the Union, the EIB contributes to European development co-operation policy" [15]
- "With an ever-growing annual lending portfolio of more than EUR 45 billion, the European Investment Bank is probably the largest public international financial institution and unlike many others. It operates worldwide in a wide range of projects, yet does so without clear environmental, social or development procedures or safeguard policies in place." [16]
- BBC funding case: [17], [18], [19]. Note also that the BBC has a Stonyhurst Jesuit-college trained director-general: Mark Thompson.
- United Nations Capital Development Fund (1966) (part of the UN Development Programme, 1965)
- Heritage Foundation (1973)
- "... received support from nearly 100 major corporations, including Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Mobil, and Procter & Gamble."
- The Asia Foundation (1974)
- "Sources of funding for the organization have included the US Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Program, Australia, Canada, Netherlands and the United Kingdom, an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress, and contributions from private corporations and foundations."
- United Nations Foundation (1998)
- Founded by (Knight of Malta member?, CNN founder) Ted Turner in 1998.
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2000)
- This largest 'transparently' operating 'charitable' foundation in the world is controlled by 3 trustees: (Club of Rome member, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire) Bill Gates, (Bilderberg member, Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity member) Melinda Gates, and (insurance billionaire [20], [21]) Warren Buffett. Several Trilateral Commission members work for this 'charity' project.
- ... (See also: 'Development' banks)
- Rockefeller Foundation (1913)
- Information corporations: False media, Software/IT, Electronics, Telecom, Advertising & Marketing.
- Stimulate the lies through entertainment distractions & fear propaganda, to create more mind-control (TV, radio, films, games, magazines, advertising, pop-culture events, etc.).
- Suppress freedom and truth through information repression: censorship, idea monopolies with patents, perpetual and extreme copyright laws (DRM, DMCA, EUCD), surveillance networks and social tracking. See also the many Intellectual property organizations.
- Military corporations
- Security corporations
- Energy and mining corporations (petroleum, coal, metals, diamonds, water?)
- Transportation corporations: Shipping, Automotive, Aviation, Airline, Railway.
- Pharmaceutical corporations
- Food corporations
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault:
- "(Jesuit Georgetown University alumni) European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya were among the dozens of guests who had bundled up for the ceremony inside the vault ... Dug into the permafrost of the mountain, it has been built to withstand an earthquake or a nuclear strike. ... The operation is funded by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which was founded by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and Biodiversity International, a Rome-based research group." [22]
- "Here joining the Norwegians are, as noted, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the US agribusiness giant Pioneer Hi-Bred (owned by DuPont), one of the worlds largest owners of patented genetically-modified (GMO) plant seeds and related agrichemicals; Syngenta, the Swiss-based major GMO seed and agrochemicals company through its Syngenta Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation, the private group who created the gene revolution with over $100 million of seed money since the 1970s; CGIAR (1968), the global network created by the Rockefeller Foundation to promote its ideal of genetic purity through agriculture change." [23] (see also: Monsanto, Dow Chemical)
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault:
- ... and various other corporations
- At the annual meetings of the secretive Bilderberg Group (founded by Jesuit-seminary trained Joseph Retinger), geo-politically important business deals are made.
- Central banks and their superstructure the Bank for International Settlements (1930, Switzerland, 55 central bank members). Note the Basel Committee accords on international banking laws and regulations: Basel I and Basel II. See also: [8], [9], [10].
- Political and judicial meddling
- The Order of Malta retains its claim of sovereignty under international law and has been granted permanent observer status at the United Nations. [24] It issues its own passports, stamps and coins [25]. The Order of Malta has diplomatic relations with 100 countries [26], and its sovereignty is recognized by 105 states [27].
- Managing global control structures
- Political structures:
- Global financial structures (see above)
- United Nations (1919/1945, formerly called the League of Nations)
- The Order of Malta has permanent missions to the United Nations and these specialised agencies [28]: UNESCO (education, science, and culture), World Food Programme, IFAD (agriculture), WHO (healthcare), High Commissioner for Refugees, High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNIDO (industrial development).
- Permanent Court of Arbitration (1899)
- The Carnegie Foundation (1903) donated of $1.5 million for the construction, management and maintenance of the Peace Palace (1913). The Peace Palace was built to house the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a library of international law. From 1922 on, the building also housed the distinctly separate Permanent Court of International Justice, which later became the International Court of Justice (see below) in 1945. [29]
- See also: Andrew Carnegie (Pilgrim Society member and sometimes referred to as "the 2nd richest man in history"), Carnegie Mellon University (1900), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910), the Wateler Peace Prize award since 1931 by the Carnegie Foundation.
- International Court of Justice (1945) (The principal judicial body of the United Nations!)
- See also: Hague Academy of International Law
- The Carnegie Foundation (1903) donated of $1.5 million for the construction, management and maintenance of the Peace Palace (1913). The Peace Palace was built to house the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a library of international law. From 1922 on, the building also housed the distinctly separate Permanent Court of International Justice, which later became the International Court of Justice (see below) in 1945. [29]
- The socialist-fascist European Union (with its 1947 origins of the European Movement, founded by Jesuit-seminary trained Joseph Retinger, who also founded the Bilderberg Group in 1954), and related institutions and projects.
- European Court of Human Rights (1950)
- ....
- World Trade Organization (1944)
- The Order of Malta is also a member of these international organizations [30]:
- International Committee of the Committee Red Cross (ICRC, 1863, Geneva)
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (1919, Geneva)
- International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM, 1921, Brussels)
- International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT, 1926, Rome)
- Council of Europe (1949, Strasbourg)
- European Commission (1951, Brussels)
- See also: European Council (1961, Brussels)
- "Not one of us can read minutes of Committee of Permanent Representatives ("COREPER"), the EU executive body comprised of unelected and mostly unknown national bureaucrats (known as “permanent representatives”, in contrast to elected ones, for god’s sake). It pre-cooks 90 per cent of Brussels legislation and prepares the agenda for the EU’s highest and most secret plenary body, the European Council." [31]
- "Under the Lisbon Treaty the European Council would become a formal institution with the power of appointing the Commission, it could be said that the two bodies (European Commission, European Council) hold the executive power of the Union." [32]
- See also: European Council (1961, Brussels)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM, 1951, Geneva)
- Unión Latina (1954, Santo Domingo, Paris).
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB, 1959, Washington)
- International Institute of Humanitarian Law (1970, Sanremo, Geneva)
- Managing the global Unified Intelligence Service (including ECHELON) and the specific Secret Services to defend and promote the Vatican-Jesuit-Masonic interests.
- "This Unified International Intelligence Community was built during Rome’s Second Thirty Years’ War (1914-1945) and perfected during Rome’s subsequent Cold War (1945-1990)." [33]
- Military structures: NATO, UN troops, Security and private military companies, ...
- "It is estimated that some 50 private security contractors (such as Blackwater) employing more than 30,000 employees are working in Iraq for an array of clients, including governments, private industry, and international organizations such as the United Nations." [34]
- Political structures:
- Policy propaganda for the purpose of social, commercial and military control
- Policy institutes (See also: "Leading Think Tanks in the World"):
- International policies:
- Chatham House (1920, EU based, formerly called the "Royal Institute of International Affairs" or "RIIA")
- Council on Foreign Relations (1921, "CFR")
- International Institute for Strategic Studies (1958, EU based, "IISS")
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (1964, part of the Jesuit Georgetown University, "CSIS")
- Club of Rome (1968) (See also: "Reshaping the International Order, part 1-6")
- Trilateral Commission (1973)
- European Council on Foreign Relations (2007, "ECFR")
- Special international policies:
- Tavistock Institute (1946, EU based, social-psychology-politics)
- Aspen Institute (1950, US based, social-psychology-politics)
- Senlis Council (2002, EU based drug-policy institute with offices in Afghanistan: Kabul, Kandahar and Lashkar Gah)
- Transatlantic Economic Council (2007, EU-US)
- National policies:
- Brookings Institution (1916, US)
- Council on Foreign Relations (1921, US, see also this article)
- American Enterprise Institute (1943, US)
- John Birch Society (1958, US) (See also: "The John Birch Society" by Barbara Aho, [35], [36])
- Cato Institute (1977, US)
- Council for National Policy (1981, US) [37] [38]
- International policies:
- Policy institutes (See also: "Leading Think Tanks in the World"):
- Creating benign charity fronts, just like the Catholic 'church' and the Jesuits like to do, to try and confuse people about their fascistic history and their present operations. Sometimes these seemingly harmless 'charity' organizations are also used for information gathering and espionage in foreign countries. Examples:
- Rotary International (1905). Over 32,000 clubs in 200 countries. See also their support for the UN globalist agenda.
- "“The Rotarians are a bit like Boy Scouts (1907) grown old and successful.” The celebrated writer ignored (no doubt) to what extent he was correct, at least regarding the common origin of the two groups. Father Esposito actually recalled Rotary's Masonic spirit with these enlightened words: “The existing rapport between this organization and Masonry is essential, not only because of its founding on February 23, 1905 by the lawyer, Paul P. Harris, of Chicago, along with three of his fellow Masons, but also because of the ideological and juridical elements, borrowed from Masonry, which take the best in the initiatory message in order to insert it into society and laicize it, that is by excluding the initiatory and restrictive aspects , which - by always excluding religious confessionalism - have a certain sacred although lay character.”" [39]
- Malteser International (founded in 1953 as Malteser Germany, renamed in 2005.). Operating in 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Rotary International (1905). Over 32,000 clubs in 200 countries. See also their support for the UN globalist agenda.
- Self-sustainable underground shelters:
- video: Deep Underground Military Bases ("D.U.M.B.s")
- (todo)
Papal and Royal Orders
See also
- The Unhived Mind SMOM thread
- letsrollforums.com SMOM thread
- conspiracycentral.net SMOM thread
- "bibliotecapleyades.net: Knights of Malta"
- "NWO: Knights of Malta"
- "The Templars of the Crown"
- "Malta is Blackwater’s operational base"
- "Princes of Plunder"
- "The Knights Templar, Knights of Malta and Blackwater’s Erik Prince"
- video: "Papal control of America through knights of malta, blackwater - government sponsored terrorism"
- video: "Architects of War! Pope meets with Grand Master Knight of Malta"
- "SMOM and it’s probable involvement in 9/11"
- Knights of Malta '80s-'90's news snippets
- P-2 freemasonry, Gladio, Nazi Concordat, Vatican CIA, Knights Templar, Order of the Seraphim, Order of the Garter, Hospitallers, Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, SMOM, Knights of Rhodes, Illuminati, 9/11, Jesuits, Opus Dei, Black Pope, Maltese Cross, Fascism, Zionism, Blackwater Katrina, etc.
- Aftermath articles:
- "Knights of Malta rejects alleged link to military action"
- "Investiture of New Knights and Dames of Malta"
- "The above Knights of Malta, or Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (or "Knights Hospitaller"), want you to understand that they are a Protestant order and have absolutely no connection to the Catholic Knights of Malta, or the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM). They want to be very, very clear on that. Very explicit indeed. Yes, they get very testy about people getting these very similar orders mixed up, though they do admit it is extremely confusing to the uninitiated of course. Even though they both have intimate ties with the island nation of Malta, share the same name “Knights of Malta” and same historical roots, the same 8-pointed cross, and their Grandmasters (Nicholas Papanicolaou and Andrew Bertie) are both related through noble peerage to the royal family and Queen of England (who was Queen of Malta 1964 to 1974), there is absolutely no connection between them whatsoever. None. Nada. At all. Understand?"
- "Al-Qaeda urged to attack Knights of Malta in Cairo"
- "Blackwater: Knights of Malta in Iraq"
- "The picture that proves ‘torture flights’ are STILL landing in the UK"
- forum thread
- "Knights of Darkness"
- Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller
- book: "St. Petersburg um 1800"
- "'Secretive' Order of Knights seek new Grand Master"
- SMOM flags
- "Ranuccio Farnese" (See also: Ranuccio Farnese (1530-1565), House of Farnese)
- Article comment: "He was born the year the Knights of Malta moved to Malta (previously called the Knights Hospitallers of St.John of Jerusalem (where you get the word hospital) and later the Knights of Rhodes before moving to Malta). The year he died was another signficant year for the Order, 1565 they had a great battle to successfully defend Malta. The Knights Hospitaliers of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem started out in 1050 (their origins go back earlier than this) as an Order to provide medical care to pilgrims to the Holy Lands, soon they became a guard unit for pilgrims and along with the Templars who formed in 1119 after, they became the 2 most powerful Roman Catholic/Christian Orders in the area. The Knights Hospitallers became wealthy escorts/bodyguards and landowners in the area. The Knights went from being a religious medical care order to being a wealthy military Order. After the conquering of Jerusalem in the First Crusades in 1099 they were given their military status and were charged with the protection of the Holy Lands. However despite now being a Military Order, they still retained their Religious Order status, which meant they had privileges granted by the Pope, the order was exempt from ALL authority save that of the Pope (like Blackwater group in Iraq and USA today), and it paid no tithes and was allowed its own religious buildings. Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor, pledged his protection to the Knights in a charter of privileges granted in 1185. After the fall of Jerusalem the Knights moved to Rhodes (where they became more militarised). The Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 and their property and enormous financial power was given to the Hospitallers. Incidentally the leader of the Templars, DeMolay was a homosexual peadophile and rapist of young boys, and is much admired by Freemasons today!!! (we know today that their are peadophile rings connected to freemasonry) The Templars suffered a very gruesome end by the Pope. Many surviving Templars joined the Knights Hospitallers. In 1522 the Hospitallers were pushed off Rhodes by Muslim forces and moved to Sicily, and in 1530 the Holy Roman Emporor & King of Sicily gave them the island of Malta. They again became a priority target of the muslim forces and came under attack again. in 1565 the Ottomans attacked with 40,000 against 700 Knights Hospitallers and 8000 soldiers, at the end of the Great Seige the Hospitallers were weak and reduced to 600 soldiers, but apparently the Ottomans were reduced to 15,000 and became greatly discouraged, and likely had imagined the Hospitallers were of greater numbers with reinforcements on the way, but still it was an impressive success. After the seige a new city was built, named Valleta after the leader of the Hospitallers, and became the Capital of Malta. In 1630 the Grand Master was awarded ecclesiastic equality with cardinals, and the unique “His Most Eminent Highness”, reflecting both qualities qualifying him as a Prince of the Church (he was made Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1607). Like all the other Roman Catholic Orders, they lost much of their european lands in the Lutheran/Protestant Reformation, but obviously they retained sovereign over Malta and had their staggering wealth and business interests. They would later be restored as an Order in Prussia in 1850 and in England Queen Victoria opened a branch of the Knights of Malta in 1885, with herself as head, a clear illustration of the British Monarchs connections to the Vatican. Here is a photo of Elizabeth II wearing her Knight of Malta regalia, displaying her allegiance to the Vatican (incidentally the Queen can trace her family roots to the Guelph Black Nobility bloodline and the House of Hanover, A research of the Guelph line is interesting, and shows their historical closeness to the Pope. After the Knights Hospitallers, or Knights of Malta expelled the Jesuits from Malta, they would soon find themselves expelled from Malta by Napoleon (working under the instruction of his second consul, Jesuit Abbe Emmanuel Seiyes), they then moved to St. Petersburg (the russian Czar Paul I even being named a Grandmaster of the Order in Russia, later to become sole Grandmaster), where the acting Jesuit Superior General was now resident. St. Petersburg was a haven for the Jesuits who had been expelled out of western europe, and is the reason why Napoleon attacked Moscow rather than the capital St. Petersburg in his ill-fated invasion of Russia. The Knights of Malta also had a strong presence in the Imperial Russian Navy and many of the russian naval officers were sent to Malta for training prior to their expulsion from Malta. The Knights also had a presence in the French Navy, pre-revolutionary France, the revolution caused the French Knights to flee for their lives and it cost the order many of their sources of revenue from France. While in St. Petersburg, the Czar became Grandmaster, which is interesting as he was Orthodox, and the Order was Roman Catholic sworn to the Pope!!! The Canon Laws of the Vatican prevented the Pope recognising the Czar as Grandmaster, however the Pope was now receiving large sums of money from Orthodox Russia, due to the massive expansion of the Order there by the Orthodox Czar Paul I. In 1810 Czar Alexander stopped the flow of money to the Vatican through the Knights of Malta and directed them into his own coffers (motivated by a desire to fund his war against Napoleon). Due to the actions of Jesuit-led Napoleon in Europe, the Knights of Malta’s european interests were severely damaged. After Napoleons reign the Order re-established itself in Europe with Rome as its HQ and it once again became a Sovereign entity, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (their own passports, licence plates, stamps, coins etc), with membership of various international bodies, including permanent observer status on the UN. The officers of the Order had to be of noble birth and membership is invitation only. A study of the House of Farnese, and the Farnese in that painting is interesting as it illustrates not only the hypocrisy of the Popes who had many illegitimate children, but it also highlights the Popes connections to the Black Nobility, and to their roots in Venice, and obviously the connections between the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. Ranuccio’s brother was Duke of Parma. Pope Paul III, his grandad, established the Council of Trent (Jesuits Counter Reformation) which would ultimately lead to the 30 years war and the destruction of much of Protestant/Lutheran Germany. During the 30 Years War the Swedish armies alone destroyed 2,000 castles, 18,000 villages and 1,500 towns in Germany, one-third of all German towns (the destruction of Germany at the end of WWII was the finishing of the second Protestant/Lutheran revival in Germany which had been lead by Bismarck, with Germany once again becoming predominantly Roman Catholic)."
- Category:Knights Hospitaller
- toresearch: "Brotherhood of Blessed Gérard"
- "American Association of the Order of Malta"
- Neotemplar.info ("a directory of modern Knights Templar organisations")