Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Knights and Ladies of the famed British Order of St. John of Jerusalem twittered and chattered...
...hundred Knights and Ladies decided to charter a special steam yacht and cruise to the Mediterranean?there to visit the ancient strongholds of the order at Corfu, Cyprus, Rhodes, Malta and of course, Jerusalem. Those in the know excitedly let fall that among the announced female pilgrims are the Countess of Cromer, the Dowager Countess of Airlie, the Countess Haig and Lady Nunburnholme. Stout Knights who promised their escort included the Earl of Scarborough, Viscount Galway, Lord Lamington and Lord Treowen...
...Order of St. John. Promptly they were informed that it is the sole survivor of the many knightly orders established during the Crusades. A well supported legend ascribes its foundation to Pope Gregory the Great (540-604), who established numerous hospices in the Holy Land. After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, the Order of St. John the Baptist at that place became the cradle of the numerous orders of St. John of Jerusalem, of which a still surviving offshoot exists in England, Germany, Italy, Silesia...
Died. Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 83, in London. He was successively Physician in Ordinary to Their Majesties Victoria, Edward VII, and George V, first Baron Powell, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, perhaps the greatest English specialist in diseases of the heart and lungs, famed champion of the dietetic properties of suet pudding...
...Palestine, the ancient Third Wall of Jerusalem was further excavated...