![]() ![]() Clement IV obliged the secular clergy to confine all lepers whatsoever, men or women, clerics or laymen, religious or secular, in the houses of this order (1265).Īt the time these favours were granted, Jerusalem had fallen again into the hands of the Mussulmans. Urban IV assured it the same immunities as were granted to the monastic orders (1262). Alexander IV recognized its existence under the Rule of St. The popes for their part were not sparing of their favours. This was the origin of the military commanderies whose contributions, called responsions, flowed into Jerusalem, swollen by the collections which the hospital was authorized to make in Europe. This example was followed by Henry II of England, and by Emperor Frederick II. Louis VII, on his return from the Second Crusade, gave it the Château of Broigny, near Orléans (1154). It was endowed not only by the sovereigns of the Latin realm, but by all the states of Europe. The house at Jerusalem owed to the general interest devoted to the holy places in the Middle Ages a rapid and substantial growth in goods and privileges of every kind. This is not know exactly and, moreover, the historians of the order have done much to obscure the question by entangling it with gratuitous pretensions and suspicious documents. Lazarus of Jerusalem became a military order. The question remains, how and at what time the Order of St. Vincent de Paul, who have retained the name of Lazarists (1632). Lazarus of Paris, depended solely and directly on the bishop of that city, and was a mere priory when it was given by the archbishop to the missionaries of St. Lazarus, from which, however, no dependence whatever on St. Many of these houses bore the name of St. However, these houses did not form a congregation each house was autonomous, and supported to a great extent by the lepers themselves, who were obliged when entering to bring with them their implements, and who at their death willed their goods to the institution if they had no children. Louis there were eight hundred in France alone. From the time of the crusades, with the spread of leprosy, leper hospitals became very numerous throughout Europe, so that at the death of St. The Middle Ages surrounded with a touching pity these the greatest of all unfortunates, these miselli, as they were called. It is not proved, though it has been asserted, that this was the case at Jerusalem. In some leper hospitals of the Middle Ages even the master had to be chosen from among the lepers. In return they were regarded as brothers or sisters of the house which sheltered them, and they obeyed the common rule which united them with their religious guardians. Lazarus on the contrary were condemned to perpetual seclusion. John were merely visitors, and changed constantly the lepers of St. Because of its special aim, it had quite a different organization. John, but without encroaching on the field of the latter. ![]() Lazarus was indeed purely an order of hospitallers from the beginning, as was that of St. Basil, while that of Jerusalem adopted the hospital Rule of St. These Eastern leper hospitals followed the Rule of St. ![]() Lazarus claimed to be the continuation, in order to have the appearance of remote antiquity and to pass as the oldest of all orders. Without doubt there had been before this date leper hospitals in the East, of which the Knights of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem originated in a leper hospital founded in the twelfth century by the crusaders of the Latin Kingdom. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. ![]()
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