How to become a Knight of Malta?
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A friend of mine was a Knight of Malta, Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He was an ordained brother in the hospitaller order (as in hospital) and he took the vows of chastity, obedience, poverty. He was a nurse, trained in Great Britain, and when I met him he was working in a hospital in Denver, CO.
Since then I have had two friends on trips to Valletta in Malta try to find him. The first friend found their building open, but no one remembered him. The second friend found the building closed.
Neighbors said that sometimes someone came for a bit, but it was hardly ever open any more.
So, my belief is that is a dying order.
It is a Catholic order, and so if you wanted to revive it you would have to research it and probably go to the Pope. You would also have to be Catholic. And you would have to be prepared to take the vows mentioned above.
The other way to become a Knight of Malta is to join the Masons. And then it is a purely honorary thing and about the only difference it would make in your life is you'd have a piece of paper and have to go to meetings of a kind some people enjoy and others absolutely don't.
In my friend's order the knights were free to travel and work where they would. But their house in Valletta was their home.
I have a picture of him in his 'togs' in front of the building.
But I lost track of him many years ago. He joined the order
sometime after 1948, after Czechoslovkia was invaded. He was a Serene Highness, Prince Paul von Lobkowitz, and captured and tortured by the Russians, as were the rest of the royals. So he was now a defunct prince. When they let him go he fled to a Benedictine monastery, but didn't like the silent life, so joined the Knights, which let him have freedom and order both--and a place for himself in the world--needful after what he had been through.
I do not know.
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