Blessed Gérard
and his
"everlasting brotherhood":
The Order of St. John
of Jerusalem

• Prologue to this English version electronically published in the Internet
• Prologue to the revised printed version
• Prologue to the original version as typescript
• Introduction

PART I: Historical Remarks

1. Circumstances
2. Historical developments until the foundation of the Order of St. John
3. The Foundation of the Order of St. John through Blessed Gérard
   1. The grave and relics of Blessed Gérard
4. The second director of the Hospital Community: Raymond du Puy
5. The further development in Jerusalem under the Gandmasters
   1. Auger de Balben
   2. Arnaud de Comps
   3. Gilbert de Assaily
   4. Gaston de Murols
   5. Jobert
   6. Roger de Moulins
6. The revival of the hospitality of the Order of St. John in the Holy Land today through
   • Holy Family Hospital Betlehem (SMOM)
   • St. John Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem (MVOSJ)
   • Johanniter Hospiz, Jerusalem (JO)

PART II

A. The Spirituality of the Order of St. John

1. Sources: The Order's Rule and its Statutes
2. The Spirituality of the Order of St. John - its practise and philosophy

• The Perception of God
• The Liturgy
• The Sacraments
• The Perception of Man
• Asceticism
• The Veneration of the Saints
• The Works of Charity =>The Hospitality

B. Sources of the Spiritual Heritage

C. The Innovation in the Spiritual Heritage

1. The vow of chastity
2. The "Poor of Christ"
3. The Hospitality
4. The Genesis of the Rule of the Order of St. John

D. The Influence of the Order

• 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

Conclusion and Vision

Part III: The Text of the Rule and first Statutes

A. The Rule of Blessed Raymond du Puy

B. Statutes of Fr. Jobert

• The Chapter General of 1176 (Bread regulation)
• The Chapter General of 1177 (Church regulations)

C. The Hospital Regulations of Roger de Moulins

Epilogue

Bibliography

to related sites:

• Santa Maria Latina - today: The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer - the Church of St. John the Baptist and the Muristan in Jerusalem
• The Spirituality of the Order of St. John / Malta
• The Rule of the Order of St. John / Malta
• The Saints of the Order of Malta
• St Gerlach of Valkenberg / Houthem
• The Grandmasters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
  • Blessed Gérard
    Blessed Gérard
    Blessed Gérard
    Blessed Gérard (short biography)
  • Blessed Raymond du Puy
    Blessed Raymond du Puy
    Blessed Raymond du Puy
  • Auger de Balben
  • Arnaud de Comps
  • Gilbert d' Assailly
  • Cast de Murols
  • Joubert of Syria
  • Roger de Moulins
• Kings of Jerusalem
  • Godfrey of Bouillon (1099-1100)
  • Baldwin I (1100-1118)
  • Baldwin II (1118-1131)
  • Fulk of Anjou (1131-1143)
  • Baldwin III (1143-1163)
  • Amalric I (1163-1174)
  • Baldwin IV (1174-1185)
  • Guy of Lusignan (1185-1191)
• Frederick I Barbarossa
• William of Tyre
• Father Gérard T. Lagleder O.S.B. (the author)

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