Rituals of freemasonry: comprising the degrees of Entered apprentice, Fellow craft, and Master mason, in the lodge; (1870)
Sickels, Daniel. [from old catalog], Gould, James L. [from old catalog], Sheville, John W. [from old catalog], Simons, John. [from old catalog], Chase, Jackson H. [from old catalog] · New York, Masonic publishing company · leaf 701
th KNIGHTS TEMPLAE. 41 their lots ; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and hewas numbered with the eleven apostles.—Acts, i.15-26. The vacancy produced by the apostasy and death ofJudas Iscariot being now filled, a hearty welcome is ex-tended to the bosom of a society whose principles aredesigned to… … The Knights, or Hospitallers of St. John, afterwardknown as Knights of Rhodes, and finally called Knightsof Malta, was a military religious Order, establishedabout the commencement of the Crusades. As early as 1048, some merchants from Amalfi, inNaples, being struck with the misery to which the…
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