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Show ORDER OF HOLY SEPULCHRE. Emperor William is the first Frotest-ant Frotest-ant to receive the order of the lloly Sepulcher. to which a number of American Ameri-can prelates, among them Archbishop Farley, of New York, belongs. It is conferred by the patriarch of the Latin Rite of Jerusalem, with the sanction of the Pope, which is indispensable in each individual case, so that the distinction dis-tinction is, to all intents and purposes, i a papal , order, of knighthood. Its origin dotes back to the days of the foundation of the soverign order of St. John of Jerusalem, otherwise known as the Knights of Malta, and of the Teutonic Teu-tonic order, but membership thereof does not entail celibacy. The order was reorganized by Pope Alexander VI in 1136, by Benedict XIV in 1746, and also by the late Pope Pius IX. ' There are three grades of the order, grand crosses, who wear the star on the left breast; knight commanders, who wear the cross of tht; order suspended from their necks, and ordinary knights. The ribbon of the order is like that of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, black silk, and the cross is of red enamel, framed in bold, with four smaller crosses in the angles, which design is reproduced in conjunction with a palm wreath on the silver star worn by the Knights Grand Cross. As a general rule, the order is restricted to those who have made the pilgrimage to. Jerusalem, and, as I have stated above. Emperor William is the only Protestant in the annals of the order to receive it, his appointment thereto being by way of recognition of his gift to the Roman Catholic Church of the site and building in which, according to tradition, the last supper took place at Jerusalem, the building and grounds having been some time previously conveyed con-veyed to htm as a gift by the sultan. |
