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LAZARUS, ST, ORDER OF , a religious and military order founded in Jerusalem about the middle of the 12th century. Its primary object was the tending of the sick, especially lepers, of whom Lazarus (see LAZAR) was regarded as the patron. From the 13th century, the order made its way into various countries of EuropeSicily, Lower Italy and Germany (Thuringia); but its chief
house
French and Italian orders. The gradual disappearance of leprosy combined with other causes to secularize the order more and more. In Savoy in 1572 it was merged by Gregory XIII. (at the instance of Emanuel Philibert, duke of Savoy) in the order of St Maurice (see KNIGHTHOOD
CHIVALRY : Ordersof Knighthood
chief
See L. Mainbourg, Hist. des croisades (1682; Eng. trans. by Nalson, 1686) ; P. Helyot
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