HOSPITALLERS

oricinally members of | on the a religious order whose work was of a/| around ot Als pee natore. They tended| but th and aged, and ministered to the | gallant! wants of pilgrims. The Ae order of | compell hospitallers was founded about 1050 at | take it. Jerusalem, with the name of the Hospital-| HOU! lers of St. John of Jerusalem; and the | toa nyr special work of its members was to attend | A houri to the pilsrims who visited the Holy | voluptn Iehre. It eventually became a power- | “ Faithf capri d organisation, and after the | of them of Jerusalem by the Turks, had its} HOUS ¢ at Cyprus, then at Rhodes, | is found and at Malta, which was the pro- | globe. | Sopprest order from 1630 until its | putrefy i ion 1799, hatched [s. 174]