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The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) , officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Italian: Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta; Latin: Supremus Militaris Ordo Hospitalarius Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Rhodiensis et Melitensis) and also known as the Order of Malta, is a Catho...
Briefly put, Orders may be either be;# Military orders ,# Chivalric/Knighthood orders or# Orders of MeritA military order is any one of a variety of Christian societies of knights that were founded from the Middle Ages onwards for the purpose of crusading, either in the Holy Land or against Islam (for example, in Spain during the Reconquista) or against pagans (for example, against the Cathars ...