D. The influence of the Order

The Order of St. John, his Rule and the practise which it is based onto, exercised already in early times a determining influence on the history of religious orders and the church. This most obvious through the fact, that its Rule , so to say as an exemplary Rule, was adopted as a whole or in parts or to the meaning by later orders.

• The Hospital Order of Teruel
• The Teutonic Order of Holy Mary in Jerusalem

• The Hospital Order of the Holy Spirit

• The Order of the Bridge Builders of St. James

• The Order of the Trinitarians

• French Hospitals

• Order of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star

Thus the Order of St. John set the standards for the Christian Charity in vast parts of the Occident for centuries.

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